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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 June 2008 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/845939] [accessed 12 August 2013]

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design element - motifs - panel - cinquefoiled - 8

Scene Description: panels or windows, one on each side of the stem

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 June 2008 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/845939] [accessed 12 August 2013]

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 32

Scene Description: eight small panels on each side of the octagonal font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 June 2008 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/845939] [accessed 12 August 2013]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: in 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 June 2008 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/845911] [accessed 12 August 2013]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: in 1960

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 25 June 1960 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Catton St Margaret's church from SW [4559] 1960-06-25.jpg] [accessed 13 August 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 June 2008 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/845971] [accessed 12 August 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 June 2008 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/845965] [accessed 12 August 2013]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a "Pencil and watercolour. 29 x 20.8cm. Bequeathed by R.J. Colman, 1946. Museum number NWHCM : 1951.235.1223.B180 : F", in [http://www.sandys.norfolk.gov.uk/sand139.htm] [accessed 21 October 2007]

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13202CAT

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret

Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]

Church Location: Church Street, Old Catton, Norfolk, NR6 7DN

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off the B1150, just N of Norwich, and now part of its northern suburbs

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Taverham [a part of Catton was in the Hundred of Blofield]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 15th century / 19th century, Perpendicular? / Victorian?

Church Notes: round-tower church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are entries for two parts of Catton in the Domesday book, one in the hundred og Blofield [cf. infra] and in the hundred of Taverham. The entries for the Taverham hundred portions are three [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG2907/catton/] [accessed 10 April 2014], one of which reports a church and church lands in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "Catun abovementioned (as part of Eudo's fees at the survey) appears to have been a town nigh to Posswick; and was a beruite belonging to, and united to, Posswick manor, held by Eudo. There was also another part (at that time) of the said town, which William de Beaufoe Bishop of Norwich held as a lay fee, granted to him by the Conqueror, of which a freeman was deprived" [cf. Index entry for Postwick for the part in the Hundred of Blofield]. In relation to the the part in the hundred of Taverham, Blomefield (ibid.) writes: "The Church is dedicated to St. Margaret, and was early appropriated to the priory of Norwich, and had a vicarage endowed, valued with the rectory at 16 marks. [...] The church has a nave, and a north isle covered with lead, and a chancel tiled; at the west end a round tower, with 3 bells, raised octangular at the top." The present font here is illustrated in a "Pencil and watercolour. 29 x 20.8cm. Bequeathed by R.J. Colman, 1946. Museum number NWHCM : 1951.235.1223.B180 : F", in [http://www.sandys.norfolk.gov.uk/sand139.htm] [accessed 21 October 2007]]. Noted in Pevsner & Wilson. Illustrated in Knott (2009). Octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with four quatrefoil panels on each side; graded mouldings on the underbowl chamfer; cinquefoil panel or window on each side of the octagonal pedestal base [NB: the font looks suspiciously fresh; has it been re-tooled or is it from the 19th-century renovation of the church?] The wooden cover is octagonal, flat and plain; appears modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.662846, 1.297535

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 39′ 46.25″ N, 1° 17′ 51.13″ E

UTM: 31U 384863 5836126

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

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-06-26 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997