Scoulton / Sculetuna
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
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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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
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)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2007 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/scoulton/scoulton.htm] [accessed 14 March 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2007 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/scoulton/scoulton.htm] [accessed 14 March 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15170SCO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity [aka All Saints]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, by the arcade separating it from the S aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity
Church Address: The Street, Scoulton, Norfolk NR9 4PE
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6 km W of Watton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Wayland
Additional Comments: altered font?
Font Notes:
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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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 358428 5826589
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.57091, 0.910995
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 34′ 15.28″ N, 0° 54′ 39.58″ E
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, vol. 2: 344-348 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78077] [accessed 14 March 2013]
- Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999, p. 633