Metton / Metun / Metune
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph August 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/metton/metton.htm] [accessed 1 October 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph August 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/metton/metton.htm] [accessed 1 October 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - tower - north portal
Scene Description: Photo caption: "The tower was built up to the western boundary and to allow processions to pass round the church, arches were placed in the north and south walls"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 19 May 1996 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/M/Metton St Andrew's church tower north side [5987] 1978-08-25.jpg] [accessed 23 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 19 May 1996 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/M/Metton St Andrew's church from NE [7314] 1996-05-19.jpg] [accessed 23 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 19 May 1996 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/M/Metton St Andrew's church from SE [7313] 1996-05-19.jpg] [accessed 23 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph August 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/metton/metton.htm] [accessed 1 October 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph August 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/metton/metton.htm] [accessed 1 October 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14899MET
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Notes: odd church feature: the passageway through the church tower, with doors in the N and S sides
Church Address: High street, Metton, Norfolk, NR11 8QP
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B1436, just W of Roughton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of North Erpingham
Additional Comments: white-washed
Font Notes:
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The Domesday entry for "Metune" mentions neither church nor cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Andrew. Robert de Creyk was patron in the reign of Edward I. when it was valued at 10 marks, paid Peter-pence, 9d. and the rector had edifices, with 9 acres of land." An earlier note in this author (ibid.) reports "the 3d part of the advowson of this church" being held by Joan de Bovile, "late wife of James de Creke [...] in the 14th of Edward I." [i.e., 1286]. The present font is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997) simply as "round bowl" [which it is not exactly, being octagonal and rounded]. Noted and illustrated in Knott (2005): " fine, if over-plastered, Norman tub font, which rather looks as if it was originally designed to stand against a wall or a pillar." [NB: the comments are well deserved. As it is covered in white-wash, and the basin is raised on a quadrangular base that appears designed to fit against something]. The wooden cover is round, slightly domed, looking like the cover of a kitchen pot.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.ok], for his photographs of this church and font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this font and cover taken by his father, George Plunkett, in May 1996
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 383408 5861136
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.887265, 1.267125
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 53′ 14.15″ N, 1° 16′ 1.65″ 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: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 8: 138-141 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78426] [accessed 23 September 2013]
- Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 616