Whissonsett / Wissingset / Witcingheseta / Wyssyngset

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2007 by Brokentaco [www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/553706519/] [accessed 14 February 2014]

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2007 by Brokentaco [www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/553706519/] [accessed 14 February 2014]

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design element - motifs - tracery

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Perpendicular. The west tower has panelled battlements with shields in cusped fields and with corner pinnacles"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 22 July 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Whissonsett St Mary's church south side [7222] 1995-07-22.jpg] [accessed 14 February 2014]

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view of church interior - cross

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Head of pre-conquest stone Cross of interlaced wheel type. The only example in Norfolk. Dug up in the churchyard, and pictured in a niche on the south side of the chancel arch"

Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken 23 August 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Whissonsett St Mary's church stone Cross [5682] 1976-08-23.jpg] [accessed 14 February 2014]

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view of church interior - cross

Scene Description: found buried in the churchyard; now displayed inside the church

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph May 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/whissonsett/whissonsett.htm] [accessed 14 February 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph May 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/whissonsett/whissonsett.htm] [accessed 14 February 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font is visible at the west end

Image Source: digital photograph May 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/whissonsett/whissonsett.htm] [accessed 14 February 2014]

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view of font and cover in context

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2007 by Brokentaco [www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/553706519/] [accessed 14 February 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15256WHI

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: St. Mary's Meadow, Whissonsett, Norfolk NR20 5ST

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 8 km S of Fakenham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Launditch

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

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Whissonsett [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF9123/whissonsett/] [accessed 14 February 2014], but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The church is a rectory, dedicated to the Virgin Mary [...] The Church is a single pile, with a chancel covered with lead, and a square tower with 4 bells [...] Eborard Bishop of Norwich is said to have confirmed this church to the said priory; and the rector was obliged to pay 40s. per ann. pension, for the tithes of the aforesaid demeans [...] Peter de Hikelyng occurs rector about the first of Edward I" [i.e., 1272]. If there had been no church here in 1086, and Bishop Eborard [aka Everard, second bishop of Norwich (1083?–1150) (DNB: 344)] confirmed the gift of this church to the priory of Castleacre [aka Castle Acre] before is death in 1150, the founding of St. Mary's must have taken place between 1086 and 1150. Blomefield (ibid.) mentions the font here in passing but gives no details of it. The present font is described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "C15, octagonal, panel tracery to the stem, quatrefoils to the bowl." Illustrated in context in Knott (2006). The font consists of an octagnal basin with vertical sides, each decorated with a large quatrefoil, and a moulded the underbowl; the octagonal stem as indicated above. The wooden cover is plain, octagonal and flat; appears modern [NB: the church fabric is said to date to the mid-13th century, but we have no information on the font of that period]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.773538, 0.843395

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 46′ 24.74″ N, 0° 50′ 36.22″ E

UTM: 31U 354522 5849259

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

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

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