Gunton nr. Gunton Hall / Gunetune
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view of church exterior - west end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 12 February 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/G/Gunton St Andrew's church west front [7183] 1995-02-12.jpg] [accessed 19 September 2013]
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view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph August 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/gunton/gunton.htm] [accessed 19 September 2013]
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view of church interior - chancel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 12 February 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/G/Gunton St Andrew's church interior view E [7184] 1995-02-12.jpg] [accessed 19 September 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the modern font in the foreground
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph August 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/gunton/gunton.htm] [accessed 19 September 2013]
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view of font
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph August 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/gunton/gunton.htm] [accessed 19 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 18692GUN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew [redundant]
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Gunton Hall, Cromer, Norfolk, England, NR11 7HJ
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located just E of Gunton Hall
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of North Erpingham
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Church Notes: the present church is redundant, in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust
Font Notes:
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Two Domesday entries for "Gunetune" in this hundred mention neither church nor cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is a rectory dedicated to St. Andrew. In the reign of Edward I. [i.e., 1272-1307] the rector had a manse and 30 acres of land", and reports a related conveyance in 1292: "in the 20th of that King, Simon de Lincoln, and Catherine his wife, conveyed a moiety of the manor of Gunton and advowson, to Robert Burnell Bishop of Bath and Wells", dating therefore the church to before 1292. The first recorded rector: "Roger de Gunton, rector, died in 1323". The present church is a 1789 Palladian-style building by Scottish architect Robert Adam (1728-1792), commissioned by the then owner of Gunton Hall to replace the medieval church there. [NB: we have no information on the font of the 13th-century church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.858558, 1.309988
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 51′ 30.81″ N, 1° 18′ 35.96″ E
UTM: 31U 386217 5857874
REFERENCES
Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810
Byrne, Matthew, Beautiful churches saved by The Churches Conservation Trust, London: Frances Lincoln, 2013