Hoveton St. John / Hofton / Hovetuna

Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009

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Results: 9 records

design element - motifs - floral

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph September 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hoveton/hoveton.htm] [accessed 1 July 2009]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph September 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hoveton/hoveton.htm] [accessed 1 July 2009]

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design element - motifs - tracery

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph September 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hoveton/hoveton.htm] [accessed 1 July 2009]

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symbol - shield - blank - in an octafoil - 8

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph September 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hoveton/hoveton.htm] [accessed 1 July 2009]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph September 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hoveton/hoveton.htm] [accessed 28 April 2014]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "The tower was rebuilt in brick in 1765, the remainder 14-15c"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 2 April 1934 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Hoveton St John's church south side [0075] 1934-04-02.jpg] [accessed 28 April 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the baptismal font and cover in the context of the nave

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 May 2007 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/484182] [accessed 28 April 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: view from east of the the chancel screen -- the font is visible at the west end

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 April 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/903577] [accessed 28 April 2014]

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph September 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hoveton/hoveton.htm] [accessed 1 July 2009]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14892HOV
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Horning Road, Hoveton, Norfolk, NR12 8NX
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located across the river Bure from Wroxham, 12 km NE of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Tunstede
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this church and font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1934
There are two entries for Hoveton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/XX0000/hoveton-st-john-and-st-peter/] [accessed 28 April 2014], one of which reports two churches and churchlands in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "In this town were two parishes, and two churches [...] Hoveton St. John's was a rectory [...] and appropriated to the same abbey", i.e., the abbey of St. Bennet, to which the other church, St. Peter's, was also appropriated [cf. Index entry for Hoveton St. Peter]. The present font here is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Octagonal, C15, with panelled stem and bowl decorated with shields in cusped fields." Illustrated in Knott (2004). The cusped panels of the basin are octafoil and the shields (now?) blank; moulded and decorated underbowl chamfer; tracery on the octagonal stem; mouldings and floral motifs on the splaying lower base. Tiny octagonal plinth with kneeling extension. The wooden cover is flat and round, with metal decorations and ring handle.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.711977, 1.417195
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 42′ 43.12″ N, 1° 25′ 1.9″ E
UTM: 31U 393075 5841406

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
Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-06-24 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997