Wimbotsham / Winebodesham / Winebotesham

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view of church exterior - north portal

Scene Description: the tympanum is modern

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 119 August 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Wimbotsham St Mary's church Norman N door [5642] 1976-08-19.jpg] [accessed 9 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 119 August 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Wimbotsham St Mary's church Norman S door [5641] 1976-08-19.jpg] [accessed 9 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: EX SE B&W photograph taken 18 October 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Wimbotsham St Mary's church from SE [7282] 1995-10-28.jpg] [accessed 9 September 2013] NORMAN S DOOR B&W photograph taken 119 August 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Wimbotsham St Mary's church Norman S door [5641] 1976-08-19.jpg] [accessed 9 September 2013] NORMAN N DOOR B&W photograph taken 119 August 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Wimbotsham St Mary's church Norman N door [5642] 1976-08-19.jpg] [accessed 9 September 2013] [NB: the tympanum is modern] NORMAN CHANCEL ARCH B&W photograph taken 119 August 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Wimbotsham St Mary's church interior view [5643] 1976-08-19.jpg] [accessed 9 September 2013] [NB: the tympanum is modern] EXT SW digital photograph taken 4 March 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1737229] [accessed 9 September 2013] EXT SE digital photograph taken 4 March 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1737227] [accessed 9 September 2013] INT E digital photograph taken 4 March 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1737238] [accessed 9 September 2013] INT CHANCEL digital photograph taken 17 June 2005 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/315498] [accessed 9 September 2013] FONT digital photograph taken 4 March 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1737241] [accessed 9 September 2013]

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 18 October 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Wimbotsham St Mary's church from SE [7282] 1995-10-28.jpg] [accessed 9 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 March 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1737227] [accessed 9 September 2013]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 March 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1737229] [accessed 9 September 2013]

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view of church interior - chancel arch and east side

Scene Description: the Norman arch and the presbyterium

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2005 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/315498] [accessed 9 September 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 March 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1737238] [accessed 9 September 2013]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font

Image Source: digital photograph 27 May 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wimbotsham/wimbotsham.htm] [accessed 8 September 2009]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 March 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1737241] [accessed 9 September 2013]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15265WIM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Church Road, Wimbotsham, Norfolk, PE34 3QL

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 2-3 km NW of Downham Market (from B1507 (Lynn Road) turn into Church Road; after 200 yards turn left at bus stop]

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely

Historical Region: Hundred and half of Clackclose

Font Location in Church: reported at the W end of the nave, betweeen the N and S doors ca, 1849 [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 12th century, Norman

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his phtograph of the modern font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1976 and 1995

Church Notes: church here was restored in 1854

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church of Wimbotsham is dedicated to St. Mary, is a single pile of rag-stone and bolder, covered with reed, with a broad square tower of the aforesaid materials, embattled and coped with free stone, with a carved pinnacle at each corner, in which hang three bells [...] Rectors. 1313, Ralph Swyer, presented by Sir Thomas de Ingaldesthorp, Knt." The font here is described in Dashwood & Boutell (1849): "Between the north and south doors now stands the font, a plain octangular block of stone, resting on a shaft of similar form: it is lined with lead, and has a drain." A baptismal font of a very different nature is illustrated in Knott (2006), a cylindrical basin with deeply-carved foliage motifs around the upper and lower sides, plain in between, raised on a moulded circular pedestal and octagonal plinth. This is surely the font described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999) as being "by William Lawrie, 1854" [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of the one mentioned in Dashwood & Boutell above, but it is interesting to point out that Pevsner & Wilson (1999) note that the old "chancel was taken down and replaced during the restorations of 1853-4, instigated by the Rev. G. E. Dahswood", who was one of the authors of the comunication that described the old font to the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society in 1849 [cf. supra]]. [NB: William Lawrie was the same stone mason responsible for the restoration work on the font at Downham Market].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.617636, 0.394924

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 37′ 3.49″ N, 0° 23′ 41.72″ E

UTM: 31U 323648 5832924

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

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

Dashwood, G.H., "Notes on the parish and church of Wimbotsham", 2, Norfolk archaeology: or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to the antiquities of the county of Norfolk, 1849, pp. 127-148; r["References"]

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