Gayton nr. King's Lynn / Gaituna / Gaytuna / Geyton / Ketuna

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design element - architectural - arch or window - cinquefoiled - 8

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

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8

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

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/gayton/gayton.htm] [accessed 2 April 2009]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 16 June 1996 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/G/Gayton St Nicholas' church from SE [7344] 1996-06-16.jpg][accessed 14 November 2013]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: the font in the centre aisle, at the back, by the tower arch

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/gayton/gayton.htm] [accessed 2 April 2009]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph October 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/gayton/gayton.htm][accessed 14 November 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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INFORMATION

FontID: 14409GAY

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: Lynn Road, Gayton, Norfolk, PE32 1PA

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located on the B1145, 10 km E of King's Lynn

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred and half 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, and to Janice Tostevin, for their photographs of church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The Domesday survey has five entries for Gayton [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF7319/gayton/] [accessed 14 November], but there is no mention of church or cleric in any of them. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "William de Scohies beforementioned had a little lordship here at the survey [i.e., Domesday] [...] It is probable, that soon after the survey, the said William granted it to the abbey of Stephen's abovementioned, with the church of Geyton, which was appropriated to the priory of Well, and the patronage of the vicarage was in the priory, as will appear", which suggests that a church here was built at the end of the 11th century. Blomefield (ibid.) adds: "The Church of Geyton is dedicated to St. Nicholas, and was a rectory [...] being appropriated to the priory of Wells, a vicarage was founded [...] The church is a regular pile, has a nave, a north and south isle covered with lead, and a four-square tower with 3 bells; the chancel is covered with tiles." The present font is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Font. Simple, octagonal, Perp[endicular]." Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin decorated with large quatrefoil panels on the sides, and graded moulding on the underbowl chamfer; raised on an octagonal pedestal base with cinquefoil arches or windows on the stem sides, and moulded lower base, also octagonal. The wooden cover is octagonal and practically flat; appears modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.7433, 0.5617

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 44′ 35.88″ N, 0° 33′ 42.12″ E

UTM: 31U 335409 5846504

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810

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