Castle Rising / Rising / Risinga [Domesday] / Rysinge

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animal - mammal - cat? or lion? - 3

Scene Description: on the west side of the basin; the feline heads are surrounded by intricate foliage; three on the opposite side as well

Image Source: digital image of a detail of a photograph taken 19 August 1989 by Tim Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

design element - motifs - braid - 2-strand - beaded-tape

Scene Description: a thick braid, all around the side of the upper rim of the basin

Image Source: digital image of a detail of a photograph taken 19 August 1989 by Tim Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: intricate foliage; all around the feline heads

Image Source: digital image of a detail of a photograph taken 19 August 1989 by Tim Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

human figure - head

Scene Description: at least two of them, at the upper angles

Image Source: digital photograph taken November 2005 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/castlerising/castlerising.htm] [accessed 20 July 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of basin

Image Source: digital image of a 24 July 1998 photograph by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: Norman portal

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 19 August 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Castle Rising St Lawrence's Norman S door [5639] 1976-08-19.jpg] [accessed 25 November 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Chiefly Norman"

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 15 August 1935 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Castle Rising St Lawrence's church from SE [0715] 1935-08-15.jpg] [accessed 25 November 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital image of a 24 July 1998 photograph by BSI

view of church exterior - west façade - detail

Image Source: digital image of a 24 July 1998 photograph by BSI

view of church exterior - west portal

Scene Description: Norman portal

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 19 August 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Castle Rising St Lawrence's Norman N door [5637] 1976-08-19.jpg] [accessed 25 November 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - west portal

Scene Description: Norman portal

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 20 May 1950 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Castle Rising St Lawrence's Norman W door [3847] 1950-05-20.jpg] [accessed 25 November 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 15 August 1935 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Castle Rising St Lawrence's church west end [0716] 1935-08-15.jpg] [accessed 25 November 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital image of a 24 July 1998 photograph by BSI

view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: the castle chapel -- Photo caption: "Within castle precincts"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 25 August 2003] by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Castle Rising Norman church ruin by castle [7940] 2003-08-25.jpg] [accessed 25 November 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the cover in the centre aisle

Image Source: digital photograph taken November 2005 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/castlerising/castlerising.htm] [accessed 20 July 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Cautley (1949: 130)

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the publisher

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Bond (1908)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a print from an etching probably made between 1818 and 1835 by Mary Anne Turner, now in the British Museum collections [ref.: 1871,0610.561 -- PPA358523]

Copyright Instructions: Reproduced under the British Museum's terms of use

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a 24 July 1998 photograph by BSI

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital image of a 19 August 1989 photograph by Tim Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

view of font in context

Scene Description: at the west end of the nave

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

INFORMATION

FontID: 00291CAS

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Laurence [aka St. Lawrence]

Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence] [NB: the old church was dedicated to St. Felix]

Church Location: Nightmarsh Lane, Castle Rising, Norfolk PE31 6AF, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1485 540587

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A140, N of the A148, 6-7 kms NE of King's Lynn

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Freebridge

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, centre aisle of the nave

Century and Period: 12th century [partially re-carved], Medieval [altered]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk], for his additional photograph of this font; to Tim Marlow for his photographs of this font; to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1935, 1950, 1976 and 2003

Church Notes: Today, only a portion of the old church [ca. 1140s?] remains - the rest is under the foundation of the castle. St. Felix brought christianity to East Anglia in about 630 A.D.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for [Castle] Rising [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF6624/castle-rising/] [accessed 25 October 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church of Rising is an ancient pile built in a conventual manner, with a tower between the body of it and the chancel, which last is now in ruins, the walls only of part of it being standing; also a south cross isle joining to the tower, which is entirely in ruins: the west end is adorned with antique carving and small arches, in the tower are 3 bells, but one is split, the roof of the church is flat, covered with lead, long but narrow, and is dedicated to St. Laurence." The present font here is illustrated in a print from an etching probably made between 1818 and 1835 by Mary Anne Turner, now in the British Museum collections [ref.: 1871,0610.561 -- PPA358523]. Noted in Poole (1842) and in Paley (1844). Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports: "the font is very ancient, and highly ornamented". Described in Bond (1908): late-Norman pedestal font; the sides of the square basin are covered in fine original and very intricate foliation and beaded guilloche motif amid which three good or happy faces appear on the east side and three bad or sad ones on the west side; unlike the basin, the cylindrical pedestal and the square base and plinth are totally plain. Bell (1927) lists a 1840 water-colour drawing of this font by Miles Edmund Cotman in the Bulwer Collection. Listed and illustrated in Cautley (1949). Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999). Described and illustrated in Knott (2005). The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF6663824866] notes: "Parish church C12, restored by A. Salvin c1849 […], additions of 1883 […] C11 font at nave crossing probably from earlier church now within ramparts of the castle (q.v. 6/1), square with plait rim and figure heads at angles, west and south face decorated, that to south with 3 cats (St. Felix, died 648, by one tradition is said to have started his mission to East Anglia c630 at Babingley 1.5km to north)." On-site notes: large round pillar supports the square basin; the lower base is a later addition, as is the carving on the north-east corner of the basin (newly carved face); the north and easterly sides are completely smooth and uncarved; the western and southern sides are carved with ornate acanthus vegetation; on the western side there are the faces of three cats. The community brochure published by the church, suggests that it was a playful tactic on the part of the carver, for the font was originally made for the old church, dedicated to St. Felix at Rising Castle. The font well holds about 25 gallons of water. Evidence of an earlier lid. This font has undergone much reconstruction.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.794844, 0.470363

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 47′ 41.44″ N, 0° 28′ 13.31″ E

UTM: 31U 329446 5852449

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Rim Thickness: 10 - 26 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 66-68 cm*

Basin Depth: 30 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 35 cm*

Height of Base: 50 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 85 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): 112 cm* (two plinths)

Trapezoidal Basin: 88 x 88 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: the present cover is square, plain and flat [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949

Harris, John, "Saxon font in South Hayling Church, Hayling Island, Hants.", XLII, Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 1886, pp. 65-67; r["References"]

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-07-20 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831

Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999

Poole, George Ayliffe, The Appropriate Character of Church Architecture, Leeds; London: T.W. Green; Rivington, Burns, and Houlston and Stoneman, 1842