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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2050985] [accessed 31 March 2014]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2050985] [accessed 31 March 2014]

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view of church exterior - east view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 January 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/671918] [accessed 31 March 2014]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "All of c1300 to the later 14c. The south-west tower includes a porch"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 19 June 1994 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Whinburgh St Mary's church from SE [7136] 1994-06-19.jpg] [accessed 31 March 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southwest end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 January 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/671915] [accessed 31 March 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2050960] [accessed 31 March 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font at the far end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2050984] [accessed 31 March 2014]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2050985] [accessed 31 March 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15255WHI

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

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Church Lane, Whinburgh, Norfolk, NR19 1QG

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 6 km SSE of East Dereham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundrdd and half of Mitford

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

Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in June 1994

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for Whinburgh [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG0008/whinburgh/] [accessed 31 March 2014], one of which reports two churches with church lands in it. There appears to have been a single church here in 1086, as Bloemfield (1805-1810) notes: "a church endowed with 6 acres, valued with Gerveston, [...] and was measured with that town, and joined in payment of the gelt", which would account for two churches reported in the Whinburgh entry. Blomefield (ibid.) adds: "The Church is dedicated to St. Mary [...] In the reign of Edward I. the rector had a manse and 30 acres of land." The present font is described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "C14. Plain, with moulded stem and circular bowl." Baptismal font consisting of a round basin with plain tapering sides and a moulded underbowl that becomes octagonal on the second moulding and continues that shape through the stem, lower base and plinth. The wooden cover is round and flat; modern. [NB: we have no information on the font of the Domesday-time church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.641103, 0.963407

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 38′ 27.97″ N, 0° 57′ 48.26″ E

UTM: 31U 362200 5834294

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810

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