Stanfield / Stanfelda / Stanwelda

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "The chancel is 13c, but the east window dates from 1864"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 17 June 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Stanfield St Margaret's church from NE [7190] 1995-06-17.jpg] [accessed 11 February 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southwest end

Image Source: digital photograph May 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/stanfield/stanfield.htm] [accessed 11 February 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Jacobean pulpit with backboard and canopy. Benches have poppyheads and grotesques"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 17 June 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Stanfield St Margaret's church interior E [7191] 1995-06-17.jpg] [accessed 11 February 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph May 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/stanfield/stanfield.htm] [accessed 11 February 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the top of the cover is visible at the west end, behind the left [south] bank of benches

Image Source: digital photograph May 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/stanfield/stanfield.htm] [accessed 11 February 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph May 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/stanfield/stanfield.htm] [accessed 26 August 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 15187STA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret

Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]

Church Location: 6 Church Lane, Stanfield, Norfolk NR20 4HZ

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located on the Fakenham road, 9 km NNW of East Dereham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Launditch

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end

Century and Period: 13th - 15th century, Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this church and font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in June 1995

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for Stanfield in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF9320/stanfield/] [accessed 11 February 2014], but neither mentions a church or cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Margaret [...] has a long nave covered with lead, and a chancel tiled, with a square tower at the west end. Rectors. 1311, John de Leges, rector, presented by Sir Richard Foylyot, Knt." The present font and cover are noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Font. Plain, octagonal.- Font cover. Simple, Jacobean, with turned balusters and a ball finial on top." The font consists of an octagonal basin with plain sides, raised on a square pedestal moulded at top and bottom, and a plain square lower base; plain square plinth, very small. The cover is octagonal, of the rim-buffet type, but the sides fully open; the top is actually in the manner of the traditional Jacobean covers, with eight scroll ribs converging at the finial.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.74928, 0.872343

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 44′ 57.41″ N, 0° 52′ 20.44″ E

UTM: 31U 356395 5846503

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-century? / Jacobean?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: rim-buffet type [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: 2009-08-26 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

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