Wramplingham / Waramplincham / Waranplicham
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wramplingham/wramplingham.htm] [accessed 28 September 2011]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wramplingham/wramplingham.htm] [accessed 28 September 2011]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15270WRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Notes: round-tower church
Church Address: Wramplingham Road, Wramplingham, Norfolk, NR18 0RY
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6 km NNE of Wymondham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Forehoe [aka Forehou]
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is dedicated to St. Peter and Paul [...] The chancel is a fine building, erected, as I am apt to think, by Sir John Canel, rector, who was buried in it in 1448 [...] The nave is leaded, [...] the south porch is tiled, the tower is round at bottom and sexangular at top, and hath three bells". Blomefield (ibid.) names "John the chaplain" as first recorded rector, in 1278, and cites a Domesday entry for 'Waramplincham' / 'Waranplicham' in which there is no mention of church or priest. The present font is illustrated in Knott (2006). It consists of an octagonal basin raised on an octagonal stem and a plinth of the same shape, all parts totally plain. The Jacobean-style wooden cover is also modern. [NB: we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this 13th-century church]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk] for his photographs of church and modern font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 372588 5830928
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 2: 487-490 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78102] [accessed 19 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.