Walpole St. Andrew

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 July 2005 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/walpolestandrew/walpolestandrew.htm] [accessed 3 September 2009]

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symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - pointed or cusped quatrefoil - 8

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 July 2005 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/walpolestandrew/walpolestandrew.htm] [accessed 3 September 2009]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 July 2005 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/walpolestandrew/walpolestandrew.htm] [accessed 3 September 2009]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: “Rood loft stairs flank the east of the nave and go right up, terminating in pinnacles"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 14 April 1980 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Walpole St Andrew's church from NE [6068] 1980-04-14.jpg] [accessed 20 November 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Photo caption: “15c arcades and clerestory with remarkable slender piers between the windows"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 14 April 1980 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Walpole St Andrew's church interior view E [6069] 1980-04-14.jpg] [accessed 20 November 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font and cover at the far end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 July 2005 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/walpolestandrew/walpolestandrew.htm] [accessed 3 September 2009]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font and cover are visible by the tower arch -- Photo caption: "The stone of the arcade is very much weathered"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 14 April 1980 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Walpole St Andrew's church interior view NW [6071] 1980-04-14.jpg] [accessed 20 November 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 July 2005 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/walpolestandrew/walpolestandrew.htm] [accessed 3 September 2009]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15234WAL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew [redundant]

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: 1 Kirk Road, Walpole, Norfolk PE14 7LH

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A17, 10 kn NE of Wisbech, 13 km W of King's Lynn

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely

Historical Region: Hundred of Freebridge

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

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

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 April 1980

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is a single entry for "Walpola" in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/XX0000/walpole-st-andrew-and-st-peter/] [accessed 29 November 2013], and it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes; "St. Andrew's Church: this is a regular, well built church consisting of a nave, a north and south isle, a chancel, with a south porch, all covered with lead. At the west end is a square steeple, with 4 bells. [...] In 1229, Alexander was rector, when it appears that he had a vicar under him. Ralph"; the latter note, referred to in regards a dispute on tithes, appears to indicate that there may have been earlier vicars here, but 1229 is the only firm date related to the age of the church of St. Andrew. The present font is described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Per[endicular], octagonal, with quatrefoils and shields." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2005). The basin has blank shields in pointed quatrefoils on the sides; the underbowl has mouldings; the octagonal stem is plain and the lower base is moulded; on an octagonal plinth. The wooden cover is a modern rendering of the Jacobean design with scroll ribs on an octagonal platform; on the sides of the cover platform is the Greek palindrome "NI[f]ON ANOM HMATAMH MONA NO [f]IN.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.7348, 0.2225

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 44′ 5.28″ N, 0° 13′ 21″ E

UTM: 31U 312480 5846388

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Notes: an inscription on the modern cover

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: 2009-09-03 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

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