Guestwick No. 2 / Geystwick / Geghestvert / Geystweyt / Geystweyte / Guistthwaithe?

INFORMATION

Font ID: 18715GEY

Object Type: Stoup

Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter

Font Location in Church: Mounted in the W wall of the N portal

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter

Church Address: Church Lane, Guestwick, Norfolk NR20 5QJ

Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located 16 km W of Aylsham, 32 km SW of Cromer, 30 km NW of Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Eynford

Font Notes: Click to view

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes; "The Church is dedicated to St. Peter [...] the north door has no porch, but an entire holy water-pot is in the wall on the west side." A holy-water stoup of interest is described in Thomas (1846): "Of the ancient furniture the piscina only remains, in a very mutilated state. [...] The north door has a water-stoup in the wall on the west side, that opposite a flat grave stone with floriated cross occurring immediately within it." [cf. Index entrey for Guestwick No. 1 for a baptismal font listed for this church].

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 368913 5851986

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.80172, 1.05549

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 48′ 6.19″ N, 1° 3′ 19.76″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 8: 213-217 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78451] [accessed 3 October 2013]
Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 8: 218-222 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78452] [aceessed 3 October 2013]
Thomas, Caddy, Sketches for an ecclesiology of the deaneries of Sparham and Taverham, in Norfolk; together with some summary details of Ingworth Deanery, in the same county, Norwich; London: Jarrold and Sons; Hamilton Adams and Co., 1846, p. 87-89