Wiveton / Wifton / Wiventona / Wivetuna
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2004
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott in October 2004 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wiveton/wiveton.htm] [accessed 21 March 2007]
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design element - motifs - panel - 8
Scene Description: did they have carvings in them earlier?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott in October 2004 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wiveton/wiveton.htm] [accessed 21 March 2007]
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design element - architectural - buttress - pinnacled - 8
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott in October 2004 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wiveton/wiveton.htm] [accessed 21 March 2007]
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design element - motifs - floral
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott in October 2004 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wiveton/wiveton.htm] [accessed 21 March 2007]
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view of church exterior - southeast end
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Lower part is 14c with flush panelling"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 12 August 1965 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Wiveton St Mary's church chancel from SE [4923] 1965-08-12.jpg] [accessed 30 January 2014]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 12 August 1965 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Wiveton St Mary's church from SE [4922] 1965-08-12.jpg] [accessed 30 January 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - west tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott in October 2004 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wiveton/wiveton.htm] [accessed 21 March 2007]
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view of church interior - looking northwest
Scene Description: the font visible on the left side of the image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott in October 2004 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wiveton/wiveton.htm] [accessed 21 March 2007]
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design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott in October 2004 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wiveton/wiveton.htm] [accessed 21 March 2007]
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design element - motifs - niche - pinnacled niche - 8
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott in October 2004 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wiveton/wiveton.htm] [accessed 21 March 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - architectural - buttress - pinnacled - 8
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott in October 2004 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wiveton/wiveton.htm] [accessed 21 March 2007]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: on the lower side of the stem
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott in October 2004 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wiveton/wiveton.htm] [accessed 21 March 2007]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12848WIV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Wiveton, Norfolk NR25 7TL
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just SW of Cley
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Holt
Additional Comments: altered font? (the present one [cf. FontNotes]) -- disappeared font? (the one from the church prior to 1248 here)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Wiveton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG0442/wiveton/] [accessed 30 January 2014], neither of which mentions a church or cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary [...] Bartholomew de Bonevile occurs rector in 1248, and 1258 [...] the prior of Castleacre had a portion valued at 16s. there was an agreement between that prior and Master Bartholomew, rector of this church, confirmed by Walter Bishop of Norwich" [NB: only two of the medieval bishops of Norwich were named Walter, and only one of the two, Walter Suffield (consecrated 1245 - died 1257) fits the time frame]. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports a "handsomely sculptured" font in this church. Pevsner & Wilson (1997) suggest a 14th-century date. Illustrated in Knott (2004). The font consists of an octagonal basin decorated with deeply-set rectangular panels [there may have been carving in them at some poitn but they appear pempty now], the angles forming pinnacled buttresses; the chamfered underbowl appears to have floral motifs, but all very shallow, as if it had been re-tooled at some point in the past; the stem, on the other hand, has a deeply-carved assortment of motifs that starts with Tudor roses under which are niches topped by pinnacles, with pinnacles also on the buttresses, just as on the basin, and moulded lower down. The font stands on a wide and tall octagonal plinth, at the west end of the nave.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for the photographs of this church and font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in August 1965
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 368242 5867805
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.943682, 1.039137
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 56′ 37.25″ N, 1° 2′ 20.89″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 9: 452-455 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78592] [accessed 30 January 2014]
- Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=51412] [accessed 19 March 2007]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 729