Feltwell No. 2 / Fatwella / Feltuuella / Feltwella
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: note the remains of the round tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 June 2009 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/feltwellstn/feltwellstn.htm] [accessed 29 July 2009]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the font in the foreground
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 June 2009 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/feltwellstn/feltwellstn.htm] [accessed 29 July 2009]
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view of church interior - tower arch
Scene Description: the font behind the table
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 June 2009 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/feltwellstn/feltwellstn.htm] [accessed 29 July 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 6 June 2009 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/feltwellstn/feltwellstn.htm] [accessed 29 July 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 15044FEL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas [redundant]
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Hythe Road, Feltwell, Thetford, Norfolk, IP26 4AE
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 9 km NW of Brandon, 16 km W of Thetford, at the Norfolk-Suffolk-Cambridgeshire border
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Grimeshoe [aka Gimeshou]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave; the remains of the tower serve now as the baptistery
Date: 1830
Century and Period: 19th century [re-cut], Victorian [altered?]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of church and font
Church Notes: round-tower church [most of the tower gone]
Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "We learn from the Norwich Domesday Book, that the rector then had a house and 40 acres of land, and that the patronage of the church was in the see of Ely. [...] St. Nicholas's Church [...] [s]tands at the west end of the town, and is a small pile of flint and pebbles, in length about 36 feet, and in breadth, together with the north and south isles, about 48, and covered with lead." Blomefield (ibid.) further notes: "Richard de Lynde occurs rector about 1290." A font in this chiurch is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Font. Octagonal. Re-cut in 1830." Illustrated in Knott (2009). The Feltwell community web site [www.feltwell.net] notes: "The Royal Air Force transported and bore the cost of re-erection of the font from a small Church at Stanton, near Bury St Edmunds about 1962/63." The font consists of an octagonal basin with rounded underbowl; there are two parallel mouldings near the upper rim and one more at the bottom of the underbowl; the stem is also octagonal and panelled; the lower base is moulded [NB: not known how much of the font is original or what it looked like originally -- we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.4891,
0.5209
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 29′ 20.76″ N,
0° 31′ 15.24″ E
UTM: 31U 331683 5818329
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
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: 2009-07-29 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999
