Pudding Norton / Norton / Nortuna
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view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: the ruins of old St. Margaret
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken May 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/puddingnorton/puddingnorton.htm] [accessed 29 July 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 15149PUD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret [in ruins in the 18th century]
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Location: Pudding Norton, Norfolk NR21 7NB
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located on the B1146, 2-3 km S of Fakenham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundreds of Gallow and Brothercross
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk], for his photographs of the ruins of this church
Font Notes:
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Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "NORTON, or PUDDING-NORTON, Was an hamlet or beruite, at the survey [i.e., Domesday, 1086], belonging to the King's manor of Fakenham [...] and here was a church endowed then with 8 acres, that were valued at 6d. per ann. [=In Nortuna ecclia. viii. acr. et vi. d.']". Blomefield (ibid.) names 'Reymond', as first recorded rector, in 1296, and notes: "The Church, which is now in ruins, was dedicated to St. Margaret, and there was her guild here; nothing now remains standing but part of a small four-square tower, and is a rectory valued at 6l.—The ancient valor was 15 marks." [NB: the earlier edition of Blomefield's work had been published in 1769, by which time the church was already in ruins]. White's Directory of 1883 reports the church "was dilapidated many years ago, and a portion of the tower is all that remains". [NB: we have no information on the font of the Domesday-period church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.812383, 0.850977
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 48′ 44.58″ N, 0° 51′ 3.52″ E
UTM: 31U 355163 5853564
REFERENCES
Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810
White, William, History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk, [s.l.]: [printed for the author], 1883