Matlaske / Matelask [Domesday] / Matelesc / Matingeles / Matlask

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 9 May 1993 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/M/Matlask St Peter's church tower [6969] 1993-05-09.jpg] [accessed 23 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2005 by John Salmon [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/317408] [accessed 24 March 2009]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 9 May 1993 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/M/Matlask St Peter's church from SE [6970] 1993-05-09.jpg] [accessed 23 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2005 by John Salmon [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/317411] [accessed 24 March 2009]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 February 2006 by Jason Baxter [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/291457] [accessed 24 March 2009]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 April 2008 by Evelyn Simak [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/782250] [accessed 24 March 2009]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14353MAT

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: 19 The Street, Matlask, Norfolk NR11 7AQ

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 10 km SE of Holt, 11 km NNW of Aylsham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of North Erpingham

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

Century and Period: 13th - 15th century [altered] / 18th century, Medieval [altered]

Credit and Acknowledgements: W are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in May 1993

Church Notes: round-tower church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is no mention of a church or cleric in the Domesday entries for "Matelask" and Matingeles". Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Peter, valued in King Edward the First's reign at 10 marks [...] 1305, Henry de Reding instituted, presented by the prior of Merton in Surry." The present font is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Font. Plain and square. Any date would fit." [NB: locally believed to be of the 15th century]. The baptismal font at present [March 2009] in Matlaske St. Peter's consists of an octagonal basin of plain sides and moulded underbowl, raised on a plain octagonal pedestal base and a modern plinth. The wooden cover consists of an octagonal platform on which are eigh thin tall ribs in the manner of open-work covers. [NB: according to Pevsner & Wilson (1997) the chancel of this church collapsed in 1726, and the church was restored in 1878; it is therefore quite possible that the present font is either a re-cutting of the original 15th-century font, or, more likely, one dating from either of the later dates; the church itself is documented ca. 1300 and the base of the tower may be Norman].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.868203, 1.194355

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 52′ 5.53″ N, 1° 11′ 39.68″ E

UTM: 31U 378459 5859136

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

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