Freethorpe / Frethorp / Frietorp
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view of font and cover
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design element - motifs - moulding
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view of church exterior - east view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David [Brokentaco], 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 May 2009 by David [Brokentaco] [www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/4374153693/] [accessed 8 August 2013]CCL
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design element - motifs - piping
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David [Brokentaco], 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 May 2009 by David [Brokentaco] [www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/4374153693/] [accessed 8 August 2013]CCL
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 14874FRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Notes: round-tower church
Church Address: The Green, Freethorpe, Norfolk NR13 3NY
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 13 km SW of Yarmouth, 20 km ESE of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Blofield
Additional Comments: altered font? / re-tooled? -- font not mentioned in SimonK (8 Aug 2013)
Font Notes:
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There is no church or cleric mentioned in the Domesday entry for "Frietorp". Blomefield (1805-1810) writes "The Church is dedicated to All-Saints, was a rectory ;...] 1307, William de Bernwell instituted vicar, nominated by the Bishop of Norwich, and presented by the prior of St. Faith's." The pressent font is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Font. Octagonal, the stem with sides carved in a reeded fashion." The octagonal basin has plain tapering sides and a moulded underbowl; the octagonal stem has piping on the sides, the lower base moulded. The wooden cover is octagonal and appears modern. The whole font appears too neat and sharp for its age, probably re-tooled.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 402088 5828087
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.593978, 1.55451
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 35′ 38.32″ N, 1° 33′ 16.24″ E
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: octagonal and flat, with moulded side and round finial; modern
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 7: 231-233 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78341] [accessed 8 August 2013]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 473