Tunstead / Tonesteda / Tunstede

Standing permission from Jonathan Plunkett

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view of church exterior - south portal - door - detail

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Wrought ironwork radiating from a central boss in the south door"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 14 June 1969 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/T/Tunstead St Mary's church S door ironwork [5261] 1969-06-14.jpg] [accessed 5 May 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission from Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Late 14c and 15c work. Said to have been built by Flemish weavers living in the district"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 14 June 1969 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/T/Tunstead St Mary's church south side [5260] 1969-06-14.jpg] [accessed 5 May 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission from Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - chancel - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis

Scene Description: west view

Image Source: digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/tunstead/tunstead.htm] [accessed 5 May 2014]

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view of church interior - chancel - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis - detail

Scene Description: west view of the north side of the dado

Image Source: digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/tunstead/tunstead.htm] [accessed 5 May 2014]

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view of church interior - chancel - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis - detail

Scene Description: west view of the south side of the dado

Image Source: digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/tunstead/tunstead.htm] [accessed 5 May 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: showing a partial view of the north aisle as well -- Photo caption: "Lofty 15c arcades with clustered columns"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 14 June 1969 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/T/Tunstead St Mary's church interior view E [5257] 1969-06-14.jpg] [accessed 5 May 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission from Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: showing the north and south aisles as well

Image Source: digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/tunstead/tunstead.htm] [accessed 5 May 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: view from behind [west] the modern font

Image Source: digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/tunstead/tunstead.htm] [accessed 5 May 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: view from the east end of the chancel: in the foreground is the east side of the screen; at the far [west] end of the nave is the modern font

Image Source: digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/tunstead/tunstead.htm] [accessed 5 May 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14948TUN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Culley's Pit Road, Tunstead, Norfolk NR12 8HT

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off the A681, 15 km from Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Tunstede

Century and Period: 13th - 14th 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 font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in June 1969

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Tunstead [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG3022/tunstead/] [accessed 5 May 2014], but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The church was dedicated to St. Mary. Robert de Grelley was lord in the reign of Edward I [i.e., 1272-1307] and held the patronage of it; the rector had then a grange, and 20 acres [...] The church has a nave, with two isles; and a chancel covered with lead, a square tower, and 5 bells." The present font in this church is noted and illustrated in Knott (2005): "unremarkable Victorian font". Tracery on the sides of the octagonal basin and an inscription on them; raised on a clustered colonnettes. The National Archives [www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=153-dnmsc&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1] [accessed 2 September 2009] lists a document from ca. 1729: "Certificate that font and windows of Tunstead church are in good repair" (DN/MSC3/31)", which must refer to an earlier font, perhaps the one from the 13th-14th-century church here]. Blomefield (ibid.) adds: "The chapel of Scornston abovementioned belonging to the church of Tunsted is wrote in the institution books Sculmertone, which was no doubt an hamlet of Tunstede." [NB: we have no information on the functional role of this chapel vis-a-vis the church of Tunstead].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.691537, -2.224086

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 41′ 29.53″ N, 2° 13′ 26.71″ W

UTM: 30U 551236 5949482

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Location: on the lower basin sides

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal; graded mouldings on the top

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.