Thorpe Market / Tarpten / Thorp Market / Thorp Mercate / Torp
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the 15th-century font now in the modern church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thorpemarket/thorpemarket.htm] [accessed 7 July 2009]
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - Ogee arches - 16
Scene Description: the 15th-century font now in the modern church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thorpemarket/thorpemarket.htm] [accessed 7 July 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: the modern church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thorpemarket/thorpemarket.htm] [accessed 26 September 2013]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: the modern church -- Photo caption: ""Built (by one, Wood) in 1796." Built at the expense of the second Lord Suffield on the site of a mediaeval one"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 24 September 1993 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/T/Thorpe Market St Margaret's church from SW [7069] 1993-09-24.jpg] [accessed 26 September 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the modern church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 24 September 1993 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/T/Thorpe Market St Margaret's church int east [7070] 1993-09-24.jpg] [accessed 26 September 2013]
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design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases - 8
Scene Description: the 15th-century font now in the modern church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thorpemarket/thorpemarket.htm] [accessed 7 July 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14941THO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
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 Notes: present church built in the 1790s on the site of the earlier medival building
Church Address: Church Road, Thorpe Market, Norfolk, NR11 8AJ
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A149, midway between Cromer and North Walsham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of North Erpingham
Additional Comments: altered font? (the present one) -- disappeared font? (the one from the pre-Conquest(?) church here)
Font Notes:
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The Domesday entry for "Torp" and "Tarpten", transcribed and translated in Blomefield (1805-1810), reports: "a church endowed with 10 acres" in it; the same author writes: "The Church is dedicated to St. Margaret, was a rectory, and being granted to the priory of Coxford, by Jeffrey Lord Say, who married Alice, one of the daughters and coheirs of Sir John de Cheney, the founder, was appropriated to it, and a vicarage settled; the rectory was valued at 18 marks, the vicarage at 15s. and paid Peterpence, 9d.; the vicar had a manse with 3 acres of land, and the rectory 13 acres [...] Walter Atte Strete occurs vicar in the 16th of Edward I." [i.e., 1288]. The present font is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Perp[endicular], octagonal. Originally on eight attached shafts. Against the bowl two ogee arches on each side (cf. Felbrigg)." Illustrated in Knott (2006). The colonnettes of the base have moulded capitals that form the underbowl decoration. [NB: we have no information on the church of the original [pre-Conquest?] church here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 387869 5859011
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.86912, 1.33413
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 52′ 8.83″ N, 1° 20′ 2.87″ 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: octagonal, flat and plain
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 8: 171-175 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78437] [accessed 26 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. 691