Thurton / Tortuna

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Results: 12 records

design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thurton/thurton.htm] [accessed 1 September 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: digital photograph 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thurton/thurton.htm] [accessed 1 September 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - north portal

Scene Description: now blocked

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 5 June 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/T/Thurton St Ethelbert's church Norman N door [5547] 1976-06-05.jpg] [accessed 5 March 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: with partial view of the porch

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 25 March 1940 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/T/Thurton St Ethelbert's church Norman S door [3359] 1940-03-25.jpg] [accessed 5 March 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - south portal - west side

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 25 March 1940 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/T/Thurton St Ethelbert's church Norman S door [3360] 1940-03-25.jpg] [accessed 5 March 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "The nave runs back to the west wall of the tower, thus enclosing it on three sides"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 25 March 1940 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/T/Thurton St Ethelbert's church from SE [3362] 1940-03-25.jpg] [accessed 5 March 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - chancel

Image Source: digital photograph 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thurton/thurton.htm] [accessed 5 March 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - east side - window

Knott (2005) writes: "Books credit it with being from Rouen cathedral, but actually it is much more interesting than that. It came partly from the collection of a Norwich antiquarian, partly from the Beauchamp Proctor family who donated similar glass to the churches at nearby Chedgrave and Langley. It was installed here in the 1820s. It does include some Rouen glass, but there is also a 15th century English Holy Trinity, and a set of Instruments of the Passion. The little roundels depicting one line homilies may well have come from the refectory of Langley Priory. Further, Chris Harrison tells me that there is surviving work here of the remarkable Lowestoft stained glass artist Robert Allen who was one of the earliest exponents of the medium in the years that the English were first rediscovering it. His are the eight Saints in the west window, as well as the Man of Sorrows in the south of the nave, St Andrew in the east window and a number of other pieces on the south side. Much of the rest is collected continental glass, but some of it is the work of Samuel Yarrington, who installed all the glass here in the church. Notably his is the church's Royal Arms of George IV, which are in glass on the north side of the chancel."

Scene Description: Knott (2005) writes: "Books credit it with being from Rouen cathedral, but actually it is much more interesting than that. It came partly from the collection of a Norwich antiquarian, partly from the Beauchamp Proctor family who donated similar glass to the churches at nearby Chedgrave and Langley. It was installed here in the 1820s. It does include some Rouen glass, but there is also a 15th century English Holy Trinity, and a set of Instruments of the Passion. The little roundels depicting one line homilies may well have come from the refectory of Langley Priory. Further, Chris Harrison tells me that there is surviving work here of the remarkable Lowestoft stained glass artist Robert Allen who was one of the earliest exponents of the medium in the years that the English were first rediscovering it. His are the eight Saints in the west window, as well as the Man of Sorrows in the south of the nave, St Andrew in the east window and a number of other pieces on the south side. Much of the rest is collected continental glass, but some of it is the work of Samuel Yarrington, who installed all the glass here in the church. Notably his is the church's Royal Arms of George IV, which are in glass on the north side of the chancel."

Image Source: digital photograph 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thurton/thurton.htm] [accessed 5 March 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Photo caption: "The stained glass in the east window came from Rouen Cathedral at the time of the French Revolution". Knott (2005), however, writes: "Books credit it with being from Rouen cathedral, but actually it is much more interesting than that. It came partly from the collection of a Norwich antiquarian, partly from the Beauchamp Proctor family who donated similar glass to the churches at nearby Chedgrave and Langley. It was installed here in the 1820s. It does include some Rouen glass, but there is also a 15th century English Holy Trinity, and a set of Instruments of the Passion. The little roundels depicting one line homilies may well have come from the refectory of Langley Priory. Further, Chris Harrison tells me that there is surviving work here of the remarkable Lowestoft stained glass artist Robert Allen who was one of the earliest exponents of the medium in the years that the English were first rediscovering it. His are the eight Saints in the west window, as well as the Man of Sorrows in the south of the nave, St Andrew in the east window and a number of other pieces on the south side. Much of the rest is collected continental glass, but some of it is the work of Samuel Yarrington, who installed all the glass here in the church. Notably his is the church's Royal Arms of George IV, which are in glass on the north side of the chancel."

Scene Description: Photo caption: "The stained glass in the east window came from Rouen Cathedral at the time of the French Revolution". Knott (2005), however, writes: "Books credit it with being from Rouen cathedral, but actually it is much more interesting than that. It came partly from the collection of a Norwich antiquarian, partly from the Beauchamp Proctor family who donated similar glass to the churches at nearby Chedgrave and Langley. It was installed here in the 1820s. It does include some Rouen glass, but there is also a 15th century English Holy Trinity, and a set of Instruments of the Passion. The little roundels depicting one line homilies may well have come from the refectory of Langley Priory. Further, Chris Harrison tells me that there is surviving work here of the remarkable Lowestoft stained glass artist Robert Allen who was one of the earliest exponents of the medium in the years that the English were first rediscovering it. His are the eight Saints in the west window, as well as the Man of Sorrows in the south of the nave, St Andrew in the east window and a number of other pieces on the south side. Much of the rest is collected continental glass, but some of it is the work of Samuel Yarrington, who installed all the glass here in the church. Notably his is the church's Royal Arms of George IV, which are in glass on the north side of the chancel."

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 25 March 1940 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/T/Thurton St Ethelbert's church interior east [3361] 1940-03-25.jpg] [accessed 5 March 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thurton/thurton.htm] [accessed 5 March 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - looking west

the font is visible at the west end -- NB: there is no tower space in this church, as the nave has been built all the was to the west wall of the tower

Scene Description: the font is visible at the west end -- NB: there is no tower space in this church, as the nave has been built all the was to the west wall of the tower

Image Source: digital photograph 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thurton/thurton.htm] [accessed 5 March 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thurton/thurton.htm] [accessed 1 September 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 15218THU

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Ethelbert Ethelbert

Church Patron Saints: St. Ethelbert [aka Æthelberht]

Church Location: 8 Hall Road, Bergh Apton, Norfolk NR14 6AL

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 12 km SE of Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Loddon

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the

Century and Period: 17th century(late?)

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs 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 1940 and 1976

Font Notes: Click to view

There are three entries for Thurton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG3200/thurton/] [accessed 5 March 2014], none of which mention a church or cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) notes: "The Church is dedicated to St. Ethelbert, and was a rectory, in the reign of King Edward I" [i.e., 1272-1307], but adds that in 1342 "it was appropriated to William Bishop of Norwich, to the said abbey, and on March 22, the rectory-house, on settling a vicarage, was granted to the vicar, with 12 acres of land". St. Ethelbert's must have existed much earlier, however, since, according to Blomefield (ibid.), the advowson has been sold in 1220 by Robert de Grys to Eborard de Vernun for ten marks. The church is described in Blomefield (ibid.): "The church is a single pile, with a chancel thatched, and has a square tower, with 3 bells". The present font here is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Octagonal. It could be C17 Gothic." Noted and illustrated n Knott (2005): "the font. It is elegant and plain, and unusual in that its style dates from the later years of the 17th century. Probably, it was installed to replace one destroyed during the Commonwealth." The font consists of an octagonal basin with plain sides and moulded underbowl, raised on an octagonal pedestal base that is moulded at the lowewr end. On a woden octagonal plinth. Plain wooden cover, octagonal and flat. [NB: we have no information on the font of the pre-1220 church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.553794, 1.43203

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 33′ 13.66″ N, 1° 25′ 55.31″ E

UTM: 31U 393695 5823791

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

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: 2009-09-01 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

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