West Newton / Niuetuna / Nivetuna

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design element - architectural - niche or window - trefoiled - 8
design element - motifs - moulding
design element - motifs - moulding - graded
design element - motifs - moulding - graded
symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - cusped quatrefoil - 8
view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 16 June 1996 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/W Newton Ss Peter and Paul church from SE [7339] 1996-06-16.jpg] [accessed 22 November 2013]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font and cover are partially visible towards the west end of the nave, by the last arch of the north arcade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 February 2009 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1163263] [accessed 21 November 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font and cover
view of font cover
INFORMATION
FontID: 15242NEW
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Location: West Newton, Sandringham, Norfolk PE31 6AU
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located on the B1439, 1 km S of Sandringham, 12 km NNE of King's Lynn, 60 km NW of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Freebridge
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, towards the W end of the nave, by the N arcade
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There is a single entry in the Domesday survey for Niuetuna/Nivetuna, but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church of Newton is dedicated to St. Peter, and St. Paul, and is a rectory", and, in a note referring to Ralph de Somerton, the related footnote reads: "This Ralph gave to Buckenham priory, the advowson of this church in the 41st of Henry. I" [NB: neither Henry I's reign (1100-1135), nor Henry II's (1154-1189) reigned forty-one years; the time reference must be to Henry III's reign (1216-1272), the only Henry who reigned for that length of time]. Furthur down in the same text Blomefield (ibid.) writes: "Benedict de Aungervile gave the advowson of it to the priory of Windham [...] but there being a dispute relating to it, in the 41st of Henry III.", thereby confirming the monarch in question. The gift of the advowson of this church, therefore would be 1257, our earliest mention of a church in West Newton. The present font and cover are noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal, with shields to bowl and trefoils to stem.- Font cover. Said to be Jacobean, but could as easily be early C16; tall and of the type with crocketed fins." Illustrated in Knott (2006).
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 332682 5855150
LID INFORMATION
Date: 15th-16th century?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: yes; counterweight
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: 2009-09-04 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999