Grimston / Ernestuna / Grimeston / Grimestuna / Grunestuna

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view of church exterior - northeast view

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 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 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]

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 © John Salmon, 2002

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2002 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/309462][accessed 18 November 2013]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

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

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 - 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 - 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]

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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]

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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 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]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

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]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 15080GRI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Botolph
Church Patron Saints: St. Botulph [aka St. Botolph, Botolph of Thorney, Botulf]
Church Location: Grimston, Norfolk, PE32 1BG
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
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
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
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
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?]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.767242, 0.550928
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 46′ 2.07″ N, 0° 33′ 3.34″ E
UTM: 31U 334773 5849191

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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999