Swafield / Suaffelda / Suafella / Suawlda / Swathefield
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
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Results: 4 records
view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Early 14c tower, the rest Perpendicular"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W 18 August 1993 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Swafield St Nicholas' church from SE [7057] 1993-08-18.jpg] [accessed 30 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 July 2005 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/318140] [accessed 30 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/swaffield/swaffield.htm] [accessed 30 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font in context
Scene Description: the modern font at the west end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/swaffield/swaffield.htm] [accessed 30 April 2014
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 14937SWA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Trunch Road, Swafield, Norfolk, NR28 0PE
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 3 km N of North Walsham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Tunstede
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church and modern font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, August 1993
There are thee entries for Swafield [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG2833/swafield/] [accessed 30 April 2014], but there is no mention of church or cleric in any of them. The entry in Blomefield (1805-1810) notes: "William de Curechun or Curzun, and Julian de Swafield, held between them half a fee of the Bishop; and in the 2d year of King John [i.e., 1201], Julian had by a fine, the patronage of the church, with the manor house assigned him by William, but the lands were still held in equal moieties between them. After this, Nicholas Bateler had a moiety; and in the 15th of Henry III. William de St. Clere, who possessed it, sold it to William, son of William de Heveningham, by fine. [...] The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Nicholas". The present font is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Octagonal, traceried stem and quatrefoils to bowl, C19, perhaps 1861" [date of the main restoration]. Illustrated in Knott (2005) [NB: the church is documented as early as 1201, but we have no information on its medieval font].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.846555,
1.394191
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 50′ 47.6″ N,
1° 23′ 39.09″ E
UTM: 31U 391856 5856409
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: 2009-07-07 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997
