Wramplingham / Waramplincham / Waranplicham
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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
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
INFORMATION
FontID: 15270WRA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Location: Wramplingham Road, Wramplingham, Norfolk, NR18 0RY
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 6 km NNE of Wymondham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Forehoe [aka Forehou]
Century and Period: 13th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk] for his photographs of church and modern font
Church Notes: round-tower church
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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]
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
Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-09-09 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.