Tottington / Totintuna

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view of base and plinth

Scene Description: in the church interior, at the west end of the nave, on the north/right side of the west doorway, as photographed in May 2004

Image Source: digital photograph taken May 2004 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/tottington/tottington.htm] [accessed 2 September 2009]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: the church exterior as photographed in May 2004

Image Source: digital photograph taken May 2004 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/tottington/tottington.htm] [accessed 2 September 2009]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 March 2010 by Adrian S Pye [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1851626] [accessed 14 March 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the church interior as photographed in May 2004; the lower base and plinth of the font are partly visible at the far end, behind the rows of tiles, on the north/right side

Image Source: digital photograph taken May 2004 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/tottington/tottington.htm] [accessed 2 September 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 15229TOT

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: [cf. Directions (Geo) to Site]

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 6 km SSW of Watton, 13 km N of Thetford [in the Battle Zone [access restricted -- military training grounds]]

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Wayland

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Medieval

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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "T[ottington] Church, with the consent of Robert de Mortimer, was given by John le Strange to the priory of St. Mary and the nuns at Campesse in Suffolk, in 119 [...] he church itself was dedicated to St. Andrew [...] The Church here is large, and a good pile, having a nave and two isles, well leaded, and is well seated throughout alike, and the heads are all carved [...] The tower is square, and hath a spire and four bells; the chancel and south porch are leaded, and the north vestry is down". Blomefield (ibid.) names "Roger de Helmingham" as the first recorded vicar, in 1306, and cites two entries in Domesday for 'Totintuna' (fol. 108, 275), neither of which mentions a church or priest in it. Pevsner & Wilson (1999) mention a plain octagonal font in this church. More recent photographs in Knott (May 2004) do not include the font, but show only the octagonal plinth and which stands only the moulded lower base of an octagonal font, perhaps the one noted ca. 1999 in Pevsner & Wilson. [NB: Adrian S Pye [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1851626] [accessed 14 March 2013] reports from his visit on 26 March 2010: "The octagonal font bowl lies on the floor with the shaft standing nearby."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.524791, 0.791025

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 31′ 29.25″ N, 0° 47′ 27.69″ E

UTM: 31U 350142 5821703

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

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: 2009-09-02 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

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