Wicklewood / Wiclewrda / Wiclewood / Wiclurde

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken December 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wicklewood/wicklewood.htm] [accessed 18 March 2013]
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view of font and cover - west side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wicklewood/wicklewood.htm] [accessed 18 March 2013]
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symbol - shield - blank - in a cusped panel - 8

Scene Description: 'barbed quatrefoils' [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken December 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wicklewood/wicklewood.htm] [accessed 18 March 2013]
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design element - motifs - moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken December 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wicklewood/wicklewood.htm] [accessed 18 March 2013]
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view of church exterior - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wicklewood/wicklewood.htm] [accessed 18 March 2013]
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view of font and cover in context - east side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wicklewood/wicklewood.htm] [accessed 18 March 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font and cover at the west end, centre aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wicklewood/wicklewood.htm] [accessed 18 March 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wicklewood/wicklewood.htm] [accessed 18 March 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover in context - west side

Scene Description: at the west end of the nave, looking east towards the altar
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2008 by John Salmon [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/805017] [accessed 8 September 2009]
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design element - architectural - arch or window - cinquefoiled - 8

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken December 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wicklewood/wicklewood.htm] [accessed 18 March 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken December 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wicklewood/wicklewood.htm] [accessed 18 March 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

Font ID: 15259WIC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew and All Saints [cf. FontNotes]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew & All Saints
Church Address: 68 Hackford Road, Wicklewood, Norfolk NR18 9HT
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B1135, WNW of Wymondham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Forehoe [aka Forehou]
Additional Comments: disappeared fonts? (the ones from the two original churches here)
Font Notes:
Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "W[iclewood] [h]ad two churches; the first was dedicated to All the Saints [...] St. Andrew's church is now dilapidated; it stood in the same churchyard; it was in the patronage of the abbey of Bromholm [...] The Church now standing, is that dedicated to All the Saints; it hath only one isle, which is covered with lead, and there are two bells." The two Domesday entries (fol. 94: 'Wiclewrda' - fol. 258: 'Wiclurde') cited in Blomefield (ibid.) mention neither church nor priest in them, but he notes a rector of St. Andrew's by 1202, while the first recorded vicar of All Saints', 'John of Wiclewood' is dated 1300. The font here is described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "C15, octagonal, with shields in barbed quatrefoils." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2005). The pedestal base is decorated with mouldings and cinquefoil panels; on a two-step plinth that appears modern. The wooden cover is an octagonal pyramid with crenellated platform, crocketed arrises and floral finial; it appears to be 17th-century. [NB: we have no information on either of the fonts from the two original churches here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk] for his photographs of this church and font

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 368110 5827190
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.578739, 1.053528
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 34′ 43.46″ N, 1° 3′ 12.7″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 2: 460-466 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78096] [accessed 18 March 2013]
  • Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999, p. 776