Thurgarton nr. Cromer / Thurgartuna / Turgatuna / Turgartuna

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph October 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thurgarton/thurgarton.htm] [accessed 7 July 2009]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph October 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thurgarton/thurgarton.htm] [accessed 7 July 2009]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "The church is entirely thatched. The tower, said to have been round, was taken down in 1882

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 27 August 1965 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/T/Thurgarton All Saints church south side [5016] 1965-08-27.jpg] [accessed 27 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph October 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thurgarton/thurgarton.htm] [accessed 27 September 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - northeast corner

Scene Description: the small doorway opening on the left leads to the rood

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 27 August 1965 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/T/Thurgarton All Saints church rood stairs [5015] 1965-08-27.jpg] [accessed 27 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph October 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thurgarton/thurgarton.htm] [accessed 7 July 2009]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14943THU

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints [redundant]

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Aldborough and Thurgarton, Norfolk NR11 7HT

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A140, 9 km SW of Cromer, 10 km N of Aylsham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of North Erpingham

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in August 1965

Church Notes: the tower, believed to have been a 'round-tower', fell in 1822 -- church redundant, in the care of the Churches Preservation Trust

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

This location appears in the Blomefield (1805-1810) transcription and translation of the Domesday survey entries with three spellings: Thurgartuna. Turgartuna and Turgatuna; it mentions neither church nor cleric in it, and it was held since pre-Conquest times by the abbot of St. Bennet of Holme. Blomefield (ibid.) writes: "The Church is a rectory formerly in the patronage of the abbot of St. Bennet of Holm [...] Dedicated to All-Saints. [...] The Bishop of Norwich is patron. [...] Rectors. In 1316, John de Claxton held it by sequestration". This is the only date relating to the Thurgarton church found in Blomefield's entry. as there is no other mention of advowson or patronage than what is noted above. There are some un=documented suggestions that the fallen tower was round and of early date. The font cover, not the font, is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Modest, C18, with volute brackets of C17 type." The font and cover are illustrated in Knott (2005). The font consists of a plain octagonal basin with vertical sides, the underbowl chamfer moulded; mouldings also at the base of the otherwise plain octagonal stem; octagonal lower base and plinth.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.8763, 1.2398

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 52′ 34.68″ N, 1° 14′ 23.28″ E

UTM: 31U 381540 5859961

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 18th-century?

Material: wood, oak?

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: 2009-07-07 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997