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

INFORMATION

FontID: 18715GEY
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Church Lane, Guestwick, Norfolk NR20 5QJ
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
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 Location in Church: Mounted in the W wall of the N portal
Century and Period: , Medieval
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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.80172, 1.05549
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 48′ 6.19″ N, 1° 3′ 19.76″ E
UTM: 31U 368913 5851986

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810
Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810
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