Thwaite St. Mary / Thwayt / Thwayt by Loddon
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
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 June 2009
view of church exterior - southwest end
Scene Description: in June 2009
view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum
Scene Description: in March 1940
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
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 - southwest end
Scene Description: in March 1940
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: in August 2009 -- the font visible at the west end, centre aisle
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: in March 1940
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
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
design element - architectural - column - columns with capitals and bases - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
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
Font ID: 15219THW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century [base only?] / [composite font?], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Bungay Road, Thwaite, Norfolk NR35 2EF, United Kingdom
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near Loddon, 19 km SSE of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Loddon
Additional Comments: altered font? / composite font? (the present font) -- disappeared font? (the one from the original 13thC (?) church here)
Font Notes:
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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].
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].
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
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 393876 5818168
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.503297, 1.436493
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 30′ 11.87″ N, 1° 26′ 11.38″ E
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, vol. 10: 182-184 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78655] [accessed 6 March 2014]
- 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. 730