Tottenhill

INFORMATION

FontID: 15228TOT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church [disappeared]
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located near Westbriggs
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Ely]
Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Font. Plain and octagonal, C17." The Parish web site [www.st-botolphs.com/botolph/st_b_other_files/tottenhill.htm] [accessed 2 Spetember 2009] has: "The font is plain but octagonal in shape and probably 14 th or 15 th century" [NB: the font they refer to is the original one at West Briggs', a church that now serves Tottenhill]. The National Archives [www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=153-dnmsc&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1] [accessed 2 Spetember 2009] holds an undated document: "Certificate of repair to Tottenhill font cover DN/MSC8/40 n.d." [NB: the church, now disappeared, went back to the Norman period, but we have no information on its font(s)] -- ***all details of font and church are entered under Westbriggs***]

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 327117 5838707

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal