Swannington / Sueningatuna / Sveningtuna / Swanington / Sweningtuna
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph March 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/swannington/swannington.htm] [accessed 7 July 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 16
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph March 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/swannington/swannington.htm] [accessed 7 July 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - south porch
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Above the entrance a sundial and flushwork decoration reading IHS NAZARENES"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 15 June 1992 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Swannington St Margaret's church S porch [6835] 1992-06-15.jpg] [accessed 31 October 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 15 June 1992 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Swannington St Margaret's church from SE [6836] 1992-06-15.jpg] [accessed 31 October 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph March 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/swannington/swannington.htm] [accessed 2 November 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph March 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/swannington/swannington.htm] [accessed 2 November 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14938SWA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Address: The Street, Swannington, Norfolk, NR9 5NW
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 14 km N of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Eynford
Additional Comments: altered font? / restored font / composite font (the present font) -- disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC(?) church here)
Font Notes:
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Blomefield (1805-1810) reports the levying of fine related to the church of Swanington "in the 10th year of Richard I" [i.e., 1199]; he describes the church: "The Church is a rectory [...] Dedicated to St. Margaret", and gives the first recorded rectors of this church: "William de Whitwell occurs rector about 1260, and Steph. Bataile, about 1280." The present font is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Octagonal, of Purbeck marble, C13, with shallow blank arches on each side." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2006): "The purbeck marble font […] has been cobbled together with marble legs by the Victorians." Only the basin, decorated with pairs of pinted arches on the sides, is original; the rest, central shaft, outer colonnettes and cover, is 19th-century. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 375706 5843767
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.729477, 1.15931
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 43′ 46.12″ N, 1° 9′ 33.52″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 8: 262-266 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78462] [accessed 30 October 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. 685