Scoulton / Sculetuna

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/scoulton/scoulton.htm] [accessed 20 August 2009]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2007 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/scoulton/scoulton.htm] [accessed 14 March 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2007 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/scoulton/scoulton.htm] [accessed 14 March 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking southeast

Scene Description: view across the nave and south aisle, looking towards the south entrance; the top of the font is visible in the southwest corner of the nave (the right-hand side of the image here)

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2007 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/scoulton/scoulton.htm] [accessed 14 March 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the top of the font is visible at the back (west), behind the left (south) bank of benches

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2007 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/scoulton/scoulton.htm] [accessed 14 March 2013]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/scoulton/scoulton.htm] [accessed 20 August 2009]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15170SCO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity [aka All Saints]

Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity

Church Location: The Street, Scoulton, Norfolk NR9 4PE

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 6 km W of Watton

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Wayland

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, by the arcade separating it from the S aisle

Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "[Scoulton] Church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity, (though I have met with it called All-Saints,) [...] The Church is a small building, its nave being thatched, the two isles and south porch are leaded, there is a low steeple, square at bottom and octangular at top, in which are three bells". Blomefield (ibid.) names "Rob. de Bauns" as the first recorded rector here, in 1295, and cites two entries in Domesday under 'Sculetuna' (fol. 282, 284), though neither mentions church or priest in it. A font here is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Plain octagonal C14 type." Illustrated in Knott (2007), who suggests a 17th-century date for the wooden cover. The underbowl of the font is moulded, and the lower base has a slight splay; parts of the font could be modern or re-tooled.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.57091, 0.910995

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 34′ 15.28″ N, 0° 54′ 39.58″ E

UTM: 31U 358428 5826589

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-century?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

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: 2009-08-20 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

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