Wheatacre / Hwateaker / Wateaker / Wheatacre All Saints / Whetacre / Whitacre

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B01: design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose - 4

Scene Description: on alternate sides of the octagonal basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wheatacre/wheatacre.htm] [accessed 8 September 2009]

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B02: symbol - shield - emblem - the instruments of the Passion

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wheatacre/wheatacre.htm] [accessed 8 September 2009]

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B03: symbol - shield - emblem - Trinity

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wheatacre/wheatacre.htm] [accessed 8 September 2009]

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B04: symbol - shield - cross

Scene Description: [is it the emblem of St. George?]

B05: symbol - shield - emblem - East Anglia?

Scene Description: [are they crowns or ducal coronets? if crowns, East Anglia; if ducal coronets, See of Ely]

angel - head - 8

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wheatacre/wheatacre.htm] [accessed 8 September 2009]

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animal - mammal - lion - sejant - 4

Scene Description: on alternate angles of the stem

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wheatacre/wheatacre.htm] [accessed 8 September 2009]

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design element - architectural - buttress - 4

Scene Description: on alternate sides of the stem

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wheatacre/wheatacre.htm] [accessed 8 September 2009]

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 8

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wheatacre/wheatacre.htm] [accessed 8 September 2009]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph February 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wheatacre/wheatacre.htm] [accessed 17 September 2013]

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Scene Description: Photo caption: "16c tower with bold chequering in brick and flint"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 28 May 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Wheatacre All Saints church tower [5813] 1977-05-28.jpg] [accessed 17 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph February 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wheatacre/wheatacre.htm] [accessed 17 September 2013]

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view of font

Scene Description: the bottom of the cover on the rim

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wheatacre/wheatacre.htm] [accessed 8 September 2009]

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view of font cover - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wheatacre/wheatacre.htm] [accessed 8 September 2009]

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view of font cover - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wheatacre/wheatacre.htm] [accessed 8 September 2009]

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view of font cover - finial

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wheatacre/wheatacre.htm] [accessed 8 September 2009]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15254WHE

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Church Road, Wheatacre, Norfolk NR34 0AS

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 7 km ENE of Beccles, 19 SSW of Yarmouth

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwhich

Historical Region: Hundred of Clavering

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font / 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 photograph of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in May 1977

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

In the Domesday entry for "Wateaker", transcribed and translated in Blomefield (1805-1810), "there were 2 churches endowed with 60 acres", presumably there earlier when this place belonged to "Toret, a thane of King Edward". Blomefield (ibid.) gives information on both churches: "Here were two churches; one dedicated to St. Peter, a rectory valued at 11 marks, the rector had a manse with 3 acres of land [...] This is called Whetacre Burgh [...] The other church is dedicated to All-Saints. John de Bumstede is said to have had an interest in the patronage, but in the beginning of Edward II. the family of Baynard; the rector had then a beautiful manse"; the names of the rectors recorded for both churches are listed until the time Blomefield visited here. [NB: the ruins of old St. Peter's may now be near th parish church of St. Mary, in Burgh St. Peter, Norfolk. [cf. Index entry for Burgh St. Peter]. The present font is described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "C15. Octagonal, with four lions against the stem, four flowers and four shields (Instruments of the Passion, emblem of the Trinity, Cross, three crowns) against the bowl. The font has been painted in the C20 [cf. infra].- Font cover. In the exhuberant Arts and Crafts mood. It mus be by Edmund Sedding c. 1905." Described and illustrated in Knott (2005): "although the colouring on the font has been renewed, it appears to match what is on the shaft. And the whole piece is not vandalised at all. This may simply be because, judging from its style, it was produced almost immediately before the Reformation. It has the little heads familiar from other fonts in this area, nearby Aldeby for example, but here they have become angels, and the panels are heraldic in style - it takes a second glance to see that one of the panels depicts the Instruments of the Passion, and another a Holy Trinity symbol facing the wall. The font has certainly been moved by the Victorians, so perhaps the instruments were previously less visible."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.487843, 1.622703

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 29′ 16.24″ N, 1° 37′ 21.73″ E

UTM: 31U 406481 5816191

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1904/1905

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no; the cover rests on the upper rim of the basin

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: 2009-09-08 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

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