Croxton All Saints No. 1 / Crokestun / Crokestuna
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design element - architectural - column - columns with capitals and bases - 8
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 February 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1697565] [accessed 11 March 2013]
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design element - motifs - diaper
Scene Description: partially remaing around the upper parts of the basin sides
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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design element - patterns - tracery
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sacraments
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
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view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 June 2008 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/croxton2/croxton2.htm] [accessed 12 March 2013]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 June 2008 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/croxton2/croxton2.htm] [accessed 12 March 2013]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the remains of the font at the west end of the nave, on the south side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 June 2008 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/croxton2/croxton2.htm] [accessed 22 June 2009]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 14875CRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: The Street, Croxton, Norfolk IP24 1LL, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A11, E of te A34, 3 km N of Thetford, about halfway between Cambridge (SW) and Norwich (NE)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norfolk
Historical Region: Hundred of Grimshoe [aka Grimeshou] / Hundred of Gallow and Brothercross (?)
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, S aisle
Century and Period: 15th century [fragment], Late Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: round-tower church
Font Notes:
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The entry for this church in Blomefield (1805-1810) mentions only the earlier font [cf. Index entry for Croxton No. 2]. Tyrrell-Green (1928) mentions a basin from an old font surviving in this church. Cautley (1949) proposes that the fonts at Ingworth and Croxton should be included in the group of 'Seven-sacrament fonts'. Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "big, octagonal, Perp[endicular], and may originally have had reliefs of the Seven Sacraments (Cautley)." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TL8736086617] notes: "Parish church. C12-C15. Restored 1856 [...] Early C15 font, probably of 7 sacraments but with carvings lost." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2008), who reports: "The panels here are completely effaced"; the underbowl still has the angel heads and there are tracery patterns on the octagonal stem [NB: the motifs at the angles are round-bowl shaped and decorated with mouldings and leaves -- are there any traces of angels on the sides of the chamfer?]. [cf. Index entry for Croxton All Saints No. 2 for a later font at this church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.445192, 0.755092
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 26′ 42.69″ N, 0° 45′ 18.33″ E
UTM: 31U 347429 5812926
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
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: 2009-06-22 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999