Whitton nr. Ipswich / Widituna
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Whitton (cum Thurleston) St Mary’s church. This church was almost entirely rebuilt by the Victorians in the style of the late 13th, early 14th century. The south aisle, tower and lovely broached spire were all constructed from the disused St Botolph’s church at Thurleston, less than a half mile away across the fields. (St. Botolph’s fell into disrepair in 1528 and was eventually used as a barn until 1867.) The rebuilt tower doorway is 13th century, and the single bell is dated 1441. Almost everything inside the church is post-1870, the date of the restoration. The piscina, however, is 13th century and the roof of the chancel is also original."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adam S Pye, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 March 2007 by Adam S Pye [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2128095] [accessed 1 September 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 15547WHI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Botolph [originally St Mary's]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Botulf [aka Botolph]
Church Location: Whitton Church Ln, Whitton, Ipswich IP1 6LT, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A14, NNW and now a suburb of Ipswich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Claydon
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
Church Notes: church mentioned in Domesday may have been Anglo-Saxon; present church 13thC
There is an entry for this Whitton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM1347/whitton/] [accessed 1 September 2019]; it reports a church and "0.08 church lands" in it. The entry for Whitton in John Kirby's A topographical and historical description of the county of Suffolk (Woodbridge: Longman and Co., 1899: 55-56) notes" Whitton church is sometimes called Whitton chapel, but improperly : for it has been instituted into as a parochial church, upon the presentation of the bishop of Ely, ever since the year 1299, and probably long before. It is dedicated to St. Botolph. If any of the churches now in being, were built in the conqueror's time (which may well be questioned) we think this bids as fair to be one of them as any". Parker (1855) reports a modern font in this medieval church. The font consists of a cylindrical basin decorated with an arcade of trefoiled arches all around, raised on a central shaft and outer colonnettes, all round and with moulded capitals and bases, and a circular plinth. The wooden cover is in the shape of an octagonal pyramid. Both font and cover are Victorian; the modern font, of neo-Gothic design, is illustrated by Simon Knott [www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/21390344081/in/album-72157658572855905/] [accessed 1 September 2019]. Kelly's Directory for Norfolk and Suffolk (1896) shows Thurleston in its entry for "Whitton-cum-Thurleston", and notes the church of St Mary as being the original church of Whitton, "rebuilt and very much enlarged in 1852, and again in 1862, since when, by the influence of the present rector, the remains of Old Thurleston church, which long a barn, were rescued from sacrilege, and used in adding to this sacred edifice a southern aisle and handsome tower and spire, which from its position, now forms one of the ecclesiastical ornaments of the county. Thurleston church was dedicated to St. Botolph, and on its site now stand two cottages." [NB: we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this late-13th century church].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.0861,
1.1366
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 5′ 9.96″ N,
1° 8′ 11.76″ E
UTM: 31U 372328 5772253
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material:
wood,
oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855
