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

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]

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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

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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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INFORMATION

FontID: 14969WIT
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
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