Grimston / Ernestuna / Grimeston / Grimestuna / Grunestuna
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2013
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 June 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1936839][accessed 18 November 2013]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1936839][accessed 18 November 2013]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2002
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2002 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/309462][accessed 18 November 2013]
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view of church exterior - south portal
Scene Description: 13th-century
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 14 September 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/G/Grimston St Botolph's church 13c S door [5860] 1977-09-14.jpg] [accessed 18 November 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 20 September 1998 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/G/Grimston St Botolph's church from SE [7579] 1998-09-20.jpg] [accessed 18 November 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 14 September 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/G/Grimston St Botolph's church from SE [5858] 1977-09-14.jpg] [accessed 18 November 2013]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
![INT BENCHENDS B&W photograph taken 14 September 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/G/Grimston St Botolph's church bench ends [5859] 1977-09-14.jpg] [accessed 18 November 2013]
EXT SE digital photograph taken 23 October 2002 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/309462][accessed 18 November 2013]
INT E digital photograph taken 23 October 2002 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/309465][accessed 18 November 2013]
INT W digital photograph taken 27 June 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1936838][accessed 18 November 2013]
FONT digital photograph taken 27 June 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1936839][accessed 18 November 2013]
POACHER END digital photograph taken 27 June 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1936837][accessed 18 November 2013]
MERMAID END digital photograph taken 27 June 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1936831][accessed 18 November 2013]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1131118003_compressed.png)
Scene Description: INT BENCHENDS B&W photograph taken 14 September 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/G/Grimston St Botolph's church bench ends [5859] 1977-09-14.jpg] [accessed 18 November 2013]
EXT SE digital photograph taken 23 October 2002 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/309462][accessed 18 November 2013]
INT E digital photograph taken 23 October 2002 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/309465][accessed 18 November 2013]
INT W digital photograph taken 27 June 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1936838][accessed 18 November 2013]
FONT digital photograph taken 27 June 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1936839][accessed 18 November 2013]
POACHER END digital photograph taken 27 June 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1936837][accessed 18 November 2013]
MERMAID END digital photograph taken 27 June 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1936831][accessed 18 November 2013]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 20 September 1998 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/G/Grimston St Botolph's church from NE [7580] 1998-09-20.jpg] [accessed 18 November 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church interior - bench-end - detail
Scene Description: a poacher in the stocks with the evidence of his crime around his neck and down his back
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1936831][accessed 18 November 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - bench-end - detail
Scene Description: a damaged mermaid
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1936837][accessed 18 November 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font and cover are visible here at the west end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1936838][accessed 18 November 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2002
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2002 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/309465][accessed 18 November 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - bench-end - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken 14 September 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/G/Grimston St Botolph's church bench ends [5859] 1977-09-14.jpg] [accessed 18 November 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church interior - bench-end - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken 14 September 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/G/Grimston St Botolph's church bench ends [5859] 1977-09-14.jpg] [accessed 18 November 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church interior - bench-end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 14 September 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/G/Grimston St Botolph's church bench ends [5859] 1977-09-14.jpg] [accessed 18 November 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15080GRI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Botolph
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Botulph [aka St. Botolph, Botolph of Thorney, Botulf]
Church Address: Grimston, Norfolk, PE32 1BG
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B1153, 12 km NE of King's Lynn
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred and half of Freebridge
Additional Comments: altered font? (was it re-cut from square?)
Font Notes:
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There are five entries in the Domesday survey for Grimston, with variant spellings of the toponym: "Grimestuna", "Ernestuna" or Grunestuna" [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF7221/grimston/] [accessed 18 November 2013], but neither church nor cleric is mentioned in any of them. Blomefield (1805-1810) mentions the church of Grimston in the context of Sir Benedict de Grimston [aka de Breccles] in the 9th year of Edward II [i.e., 1316], and adds: "Walter occurs rector in 1242; the same probably with Walter de Thorp, rector in 1253", which corroborates the existence of a church here at least by the mid-13th century; "The church is a regular pile, with a nave, 2 isles, and a chancel covered with lead; a large four-square tower, and 5 bells". The present font is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Octagonal, with five E[arly] E[nglish] columns." Noted and illustrated in the Grimston Parish Council and Village site [http://grimstonpc.norfolkparishes.gov.uk/photos/photo?photo_id=2194852] [accessed 4 August 2009]: "The 13th century font stands on five columns, and is covered with a cover made in the 1890's […] The Early English Font was given a new cover in 1895, which hangs from the roof beam and raises and lowers with a counter-balanced mechanism". [NB: the octagonal basin is rather irregular in its facets; could it have been a square basin trimmed at the angles late?]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1977 and 1998
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 334773 5849191
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.767242, 0.550928
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 46′ 2.07″ N, 0° 33′ 3.34″ E
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: yes; counterweight
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol.: 8: 441-452 [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78490][accessed 18 November 2013]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999, p. 371