West Caister
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14953CAI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Edmund [old church in ruins]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Edmund the Martyr [aka Edmund of East Anglia]
Church Address: W Road, West Caister, Norfolk NR30 5SY
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A149, 2 km W of Caister-on-Sea, 4 km N of Great Yarmouth
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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Pevsner & Wilson (1997) note that the remains of the old church of St. Edmund date to the 15th century, and that the new church, also dedicated to St. Edmund, has "a simple drum" font. The font at new St. Edmund's is illustrated in Knott (2006): it is a plain square basin raised on a plain cylindrical pedestal, a modern font. [NB: we have no information on the original font of old St. Edmund's]
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 412474 5833536
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.644725, 1.706352
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 38′ 41.01″ N, 1° 42′ 22.87″ E
REFERENCES
- 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. 715