Hoveton St. John / Hofton / Hovetuna
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Standing permission
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]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
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