Colton nr. Norwich / Colentuna / Colentuna
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Results: 5 records
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/colton/colton.htm] [accessed 21 July 2009]
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/colton/colton.htm] [accessed 21 July 2009]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/colton/colton.htm] [accessed 21 July 2009]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/colton/colton.htm] [accessed 21 July 2009]
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view of church interior - chancel and nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font and cover at the west end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/colton/colton.htm] [accessed 21 July 2009]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 10146COL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: Church Lane, Colton, Norfolk, NR9 5DE
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located S of the A47, W of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Forehoe [aka Forehou]
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Colton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TG1009/colton/] [accessed 12 April 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is dedicated to St. Andrew [...] The church is leaded, and the chancel tiled, the tower is square, and hath three bells", and names "Tho. de Depham" as the first recorded rector; he died in 1317. The font here is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Perp[endicular], octagonal, with quatrefoils." Illustrated in Knott (2006). The basin has a moulding at the bottom of the underbowl chamfer and is raised on a plain octagonal stam, lower base and plinth. The wooden cover is a modern rendering of the four vertical scroll ribs. The Historic Churches Preservation Trust states that "the 8 sided font is thought to date from the late 14th century" [source: 'Recent Grants' issue of the Grants Cttee. Meeting of 22 June 2004, www.historicchurches.org.uk]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 372060 5833990
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.640783, 1.10915
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 38′ 26.82″ N, 1° 6′ 32.94″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 2: 419-422 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78091] [accessed 18 March 2013]
- Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999, p. 269