Thwaite St. Mary / Thwayt / Thwayt by Loddon

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Results: 9 records

design element - architectural - column - columns with capitals and bases - 8

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 23 June 2009 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thwaitestmary/thwaitestmary.htm] [accessed 1 September 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: in March 1940

view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: in June 2009

view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum

Scene Description: in March 1940

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 23 June 2009 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thwaitestmary/thwaitestmary.htm] [accessed 1 September 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - southwest end

Scene Description: in March 1940

view of church exterior - southwest end

Scene Description: in June 2009

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: in March 1940

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 23 June 2009 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thwaitestmary/thwaitestmary.htm] [accessed 1 September 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: in August 2009 -- the font visible at the west end, centre aisle

view of font and cover

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 23 June 2009 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thwaitestmary/thwaitestmary.htm] [accessed 1 September 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 15219THW

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Bungay Road, Thwaite, Norfolk NR35 2EF, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located near Loddon, 19 km SSE of Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Loddon

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

Century and Period: 14th century [base only?] / [composite font?], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1940; and to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "I do not find this town mentioned in the book of Domesday, it being accounted for in other towns, whose lordships extended into this. A principal part of it belonged to the abbot of Bury's manor of Loddon, and it is often called in old writings, Thwayt by Loddon. [...] The church is dedicated to St. Mary, and was a rectory. In the reign of Edward I. Sir James de Creyk and Richard Charles, presented to it alternately. The rector had a manse and 30 acres [...] Walter le Parker occurs rectors rector in the 18th of Edward I" [i.e., 1290]. The present font is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Early C14 stem made up of eight shafts, but later bowl." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2009). [NB: the basin appears to have been re-tooled at some point and shows signs of damage to the upper rim].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.503297, 1.436493

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 30′ 11.87″ N, 1° 26′ 11.38″ E

UTM: 31U 393876 5818168

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal, flat and plain; appears modern

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