Croxton St. John? / Crokestuna

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view of church exterior - east view - ruins

Scene Description: Source caption: "The ruin of John the Baptist's Chapel in Croxton. The chapel was abandoned during the 1880s and since then the small church and its graveyard have been left to go back to nature. Surrounded by a woodland, the ruin is covered in ivy, and the headstones, some fallen over, are hidden in the dense undergrowth. Trees are growing inside the roofless building and its walls have started to crack and crumble. The box seen in the fork of the tree at right is a nesting box for owls."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/571093] [accessed 13 September 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior - looking east - window

Scene Description: Source caption: "St John the Baptist's Chapel. View east through east window. The chapel was abandoned during the 1880s and since then the small church and its graveyard have been left to go back to nature. Surrounded by a woodland, the ruin is covered in ivy, and the headstones, some fallen over, are hidden in the dense undergrowth. Trees are growing inside the roofless building and its walls have started to crack and crumble."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/571096] [accessed 13 September 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/fulmodestonnew/fulmodestonnew.htm] [accessed 1 July 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 14876CRO

Church/Chapel: Church / Chapel of St. John the Baptist [in ruins]

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Fulmodeston is located 3 km ESE of Kettlestone [grid ref.: TF 9839 3094]

Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Norfolk]

Historical Region: Hundred of Gallow and Brothercross

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 13th century [basin only] [re-cut] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "C[roxton]. In the reign of King Edward [i.e., the Confessor (1003-1066), this was a village held by Toke, who being ejected, it was granted at the Conquest to the Earl of Warren; it consisted of 1 carucate of land, and 4 freemen had a carucate and 4 acres of meadow, and was valued in Fulmodeston; here was also a church, but not endowed with any land [...] The Chapel, or Church, is a single pile, with a chancel covered with thatch, without a steeple, and dedicated to St. John the Baptist, and the prior of Castleacre, as patron of the rectory, was patron of it; and the rector had a manse here, with 30 acres, and was valued with Fulmodeston. Peter-pence 5d." Pevsner & Wilson (1997) note a baptismal font "from Croxton. C13, round bowl recut, on five columns". This may be the baptismal font from the abandoned church of St. John the Baptist at Croxton [cf. Index entries for two other fonts from this locality listed under Croxton All Saints Nos. 1, 2]. The basin is now cylindrical and plain, and is raised on moulded columns that appear modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.839156, 0.944061

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 50′ 20.96″ N, 0° 56′ 38.62″ E

UTM: 31U 361521 5856359

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

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: 2009-07-01 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

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