West Winch / Wesuuenic / Wesuuinic
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view of font
Scene Description: notice the stone-insert repair to the upper right side of the basin; other repairs around the upper rim and holes on the sides related to an earlier cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2010
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 11 June 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1920584] [accessed 5 December 2013]
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 June 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1920584] [accessed 5 December 2013]
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 11 June 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1920584] [accessed 5 December 2013]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 June 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1920551] [accessed 5 December 2013]
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view of church exterior - southwest end
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Stone and flint chequered 14c south porch"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 31 May 1996 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/W Winch St Mary's church tower and S porch [7319] 1996-05-31.jpg] [accessed 5 December 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - east view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 31 May 1996 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/W Winch St Mary's church from east [7320] 1996-05-31.jpg] [accessed 5 December 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: viewed from inside the chancel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 June 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1920567] [accessed 5 December 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 June 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1920559] [accessed 5 December 2013]
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view of font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2010
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 11 June 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1920584] [accessed 5 December 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2010
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 11 June 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1920584] [accessed 5 December 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15248WIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century, Tudor
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the W entrance [moved -- cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Main Rd., West Winch, Norfolk, PE33 0NP
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A10, 5 km S of King's Lynn
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Freebridge
Additional Comments: disppeared font? (the one of the ca. 1180? / ca. 1312? church here)
Font Notes:
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There are three entris in the Domesday survey for this place [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF6315/west-winch/] [accessed 5 December 2013] [variant spellings], but neither mentions a church or cleric in it. The earliest mention in Blomefield (1805-1810) of the church of West Winch St. Mary's is in relation to the presentation of Gilbert de Henly to the rectory in 1312. A "stone font" appears in an inventory of this church contents done ca. 1861 and reported in Eller (1861) [NB: Eller (ibid.) notes the church as Early English, from ca. 1180, and Perpendicular; of the font itself, writes Eller, "a simple octagonal font, of the Tudor style" that stands within the belfry arch, but that originally stood at the end of the aisle, whence it was moved closer to the west entrance]. Reported in White's Directory of 1883: "the font stands near the west door". Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "C15, plain, octagonal."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, 31 May 1996
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 325371 5843731
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.715247, 0.414631
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 42′ 54.89″ N, 0° 24′ 52.67″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat octagonal platform with scroll-rib cluster; finial has round tower with flaming top
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 9: 155-157 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78516] [accessed 5 December 2013]
- Eller, George, Revd., Memorials, archaeological and ecclesiastical, of the West Winch manors, from the earliest ages to the present period [...], King's Lynn: Printed (for private circulation) by Thew & Son, publishers, 1861, p. 144, 170
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999, p. 773
- White, William, History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk, [s.l.]: [printed for the author], 1883, [transcribed in http://www.origins.org.uk/genuki/NFK/places/w/winch_west/white1883.shtml] [accessed 4 September 2009]]