East Walton / Waltuna

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Results: 10 records

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 10 June 2006 by Janice Tostevin

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 10 June 2006 by Janice Tostevin

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a square - 8

Scene Description: some of the them are inscribed in a circle as well

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 10 June 2006 by Janice Tostevin

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design element - motifs - tracery - varied

Scene Description: trefoiled panels of full height alternate with shorter cinquefoil panels that have a cusped quatrefoil below

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 10 June 2006 by Janice Tostevin

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 31 May 1996 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/E/E Walton St Mary's church from SE [7327] 1996-05-31.jpg] [accessed 5 December 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - tower - southwest view

Scene Description: Photo caption: ""The round tower is probably Norman"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 31 May 1996 by George Plunkett [whttp://www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/E/E Walton St Mary's church tower [7328] 1996-05-31.jpg] [accessed 5 December 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph October 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/eastwalton/eastwalton.htm] [accessed 5 December 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font is at the west end, almost completely hidden here by the person standing in the aisle

Image Source: digital photograph October 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/eastwalton/eastwalton.htm] [accessed 5 December 2013]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 June 2006 by Janice Tostevin

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the door behind the font opens into the tower

Image Source: digital photograph October 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/eastwalton/eastwalton.htm] [accessed 5 December 2013]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14032WAL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Church Lane, Walton East, Norfolk, PE32 1PP

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B1153, 13 km ESE of King's Lynn

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Freebridge

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

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk], and to Janice Tostevin for their photographs of church and font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, Georges Plunkett, in May 1996

Church Notes: round-tower church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries in the Domesday survey for "Waltuna" [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF7416/east-walton/] [accessed 5 December 2013], one of which, the one corresponding to the part held by Roger de Bigot, is shown in Blomefield (1805-1810) as having "2 churches endowed with 30 acres, valued at 2s. 8d. that is one here, the other at Pentney. The former is probably the same noted as a "moiety" in the same source: "Hermerus de Ferrarijs had also a part of this township: under the title of invasions, in Domesday, we find that he had seized on 91 acres which 3 freemen formerly held; and Bordin held it under him; to this belonged 9 borderers, with 12 acres of meadow; there was formerly one carucate and an half, but at the survey only one, valued at 9s. 4d. and over these he had not the protection; there was also a moiety of a church, with 15 acres". The church is described in Blomefield (ibid.): "The Church of East Walton is dedicated to St. Mary, and, together with the chapel of St. Andrew, was a rectory", who names "Robert de Narford instituted to the vicarages of St. Mary and St. Andrew, presented by the prior, &c. of Westacre", as first recorded vicar in 1322." The present font is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Font. Simple, Perp[endicular], octagonal." Illustrated in Knott (2006). Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin wtih tapering sides decorated with large quatrefoils, one per side; graded moulding on the underbowl; simple mixed tracery motifs on the stem of the base. Flat octagonal wooden cover with moulded sides; fitted over the rim.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.714675, 0.578361

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 42′ 52.83″ N, 0° 34′ 42.1″ E

UTM: 31U 336426 5843282

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

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: 2009-07-28 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999