Witton nr. Norwich / Witona / Witton by Norwich / Witton nr. Blofield
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design element - patterns - tracery
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 May 2009 by Brokentaco [www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/4535656181/] [accessed 13 August 2013]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/917111] [accessed 13 August 2013]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
![in 1989 -- "The chancel rebuilt in 1857 and church re-roofed and restored in 1902" [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1130813001_compressed.png)
Scene Description: in 1989 -- "The chancel rebuilt in 1857 and church re-roofed and restored in 1902" [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 19 July 2013 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Witton St Margaret's church from SE [6567] 1989-07-19.jpg] [accessed 13 August 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: in 2008
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/917112] [accessed 13 August 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/917130] [accessed 13 August 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/917152] [accessed 13 August 2013]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: claimed to be 14th-century [cf. FontNotes], probably much restored and re-tooled
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Brokentaco, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 May 2009 by Brokentaco [www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/4535656181/] [accessed 13 August 2013]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 14969WIT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 7-8 km E of Norwich [NB: not to be confused with Witton nr North Walsham]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Blofield [a part in the Hundred of Walsham]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 14th century [restored?], Decorated [altered]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan plunket for the photograph of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, 19 July 1989
Font Notes:
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The Domesday entry for "Witona" mentions neither church nor cleric. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Margaret", and names "Mr. Roger the Saham." as first recorded rector, in 1318. The present font is described in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Octagonal, C14. With a whole pattern book of tracery patterns." The font, illustrated in www.geograph.org.uk/photo/917155 [accessed 9 July 2009] looks like a Victorian version of the Decorated design: an octagonal basin with tracery decoration on the sides, raised on a central shaft and eight round colonnettes, and an octagonal lower base. The font is either modern or has been greatly restored. The wooden cover is octagonal, flat and plain; modern. [NB: we have no information on the earlier font of the medieval church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.635842, 1.418792
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 38′ 9.03″ N, 1° 25′ 7.65″ E, 1° 25′ 7.65″ E
UTM: 31U 392997 5832936
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997