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B01: sacrament - baptism

Scene Description: on the NW side of the basin

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/walsoken/walsoken.htm

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B02: sacrament - confirmation

Scene Description: on the N side of the basin

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/walsoken/walsoken.htm

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B03: sacrament - penance

Scene Description: on the NE side of the basin

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/walsoken/walsoken.htm

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B04: sacrament - eucharist

Scene Description: on the E side of the basin

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/walsoken/walsoken.htm

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B05: sacrament - holy orders

Scene Description: on the SE side of the basin

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/walsoken/walsoken.htm

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B06: sacrament - marriage

Scene Description: on the S side of the basin

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/walsoken/walsoken.htm

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B07: sacrament - extreme unction

Scene Description: on the SW side of the basin

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/walsoken/walsoken.htm

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B08: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist

Scene Description: on the N side of the basin

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/walsoken/walsoken.htm

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LBF01: Apostle or saint - St. John the Baptist

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/walsoken/walsoken.htm

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LBF02: Apostle or saint - St. Margaret of Antioch

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/walsoken/walsoken.htm

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LBF03: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Paul - with sword

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/walsoken/walsoken.htm

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LBF04: Apostle or saint - St. Mary Magdalene - with vase

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/walsoken/walsoken.htm

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LBF05: Apostle or saint - St. Catherine of Alexandria - with wheel

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/walsoken/walsoken.htm

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LBF06: Apostle or saint - St. Stephen

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/walsoken/walsoken.htm

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LBF07: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter - holding 1 key and book

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/walsoken/walsoken.htm

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LBF08: Apostle or saint - St. Dorothea of Caesarea - with pincers

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/walsoken/walsoken.htm

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angel - showing wings

Scene Description: Some with scrolls, some in prayer

Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken 19 August 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Walsoken All Saints church font S E sides [5646] 1976-08-19.jpg] [accessed 29 November 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

design element - architectural - arcade - 8 arches - trefoiled arches - crocketed

Scene Description: Very elaborate arcade of crocketed Ogee arches, each containg a scene

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design element - architectural - arch - Gothic - crocketed arch - 8

Scene Description: the arch-heads for the figures of the stem are carved on the lower side of the underbowl chamfer

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design element - architectural - buttress - pinnacled - 8

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design element - motifs - floral and fruit

Scene Description: resembling ears of corn; on the sides of the underbowl chamfer, between the angels

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inscription - detail

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symbol - shield - emblem - Christ - the instruments of the Passion

Scene Description: The Instruments of the Passion spread over several of the shields ornamenting the angles of the lower base

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symbol - triquetra

Scene Description: One in each of the two spandrels of the arches

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view of base - detail

Image Source: detail of a photograph in Kroesen and Steensma (2004)

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view of base - detail

Image Source: detail of a photograph in Kroesen and Steensma (2004)

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view of basin

Image Source: detail of a photograph in Kroesen and Steensma (2004)

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view of basin - detail - Crucifixion

Image Source: digital image of an engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged]

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view of basin - detail - Eucharist

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Crossley (1941: fig. 59)

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view of basin - detail - Extreme unction

Image Source: detail of a photograph in Kroesen and Steensma (2004)

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view of basin - detail - Holy orders

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Crossley (1941: fig. 59)

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view of basin - detail - Marriage

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view of basin - detail - Penance

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view of basin - detail - baptism

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view of basin - underbowl

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 21 August 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Walsoken All Saints church from SE [5661] 1976-08-21.jpg] [accessed 29 November 2013]

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Early English tower with 13c stone spire"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 20 July 1996 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Walsoken All Saints church tower and spire [7367] 1996-07-20.jpg] [accessed 29 November 2013]

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view of church exterior - west portal

Scene Description: Norman portal

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 21 August 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Walsoken All Saints church Norman west door [5660] 1976-08-21.jpg] [accessed 29 November 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Photo caption: "12c arcades"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 19 August 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Walsoken All Saints church interior view E [5645] 1976-08-19.jpg] [accessed 29 November 2013]

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view of font

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

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view of font

Image Source: detail of a photograph in Kroesen and Steensma (2004)

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view of font

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view of font - southeast side

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Seven sacrament font. S panel Matrimony. SE panel Ordination. E panel Mass"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 19 August 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Walsoken All Saints church font S E sides [5646] 1976-08-19.jpg] [accessed 29 November 2013]

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view of font in context

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/walsoken/walsoken.htm

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view of font in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00514WAL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Church Rd, Walsoken, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, PE13 3RA, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Walsoken is located in the outskirts of Wisbech, 40 kms NE of Peterborough.

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely

Historical Region: formerly Cambridgeshire

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

Date: 1544

Century and Period: 16th century(mid), Late Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font

Cognate Fonts: Little Walshingham and other such fonts, mainly in Norfolk. A 19th-century marble copy of this font at Glanford [not listed separetly in this Index]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1976 and 1996

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry in the Domesday survey under "Walsocam" [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF4710/walsoken/] [accessed 29 November 2013], but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church of Walsoken is dedicated to All-Saints, and has a nave, north and south isle, with a chancel covered with lead; at the west end is a tower, with a spire of free-stone. [...] The font is curiously ornamented with imagery work of many saints, our Saviour's passion, and the seven sacraments of the church of Rome: and round the foot of it,— Remember the soul of S. Honyter and Margaret his wife and John Beforth chaplin." The earliest date noted for this church in Blomefield (ibid.O appears in the list of rectors: "A[nn]o. 14 King John, William de Lutherfield was presented to the rectory, by that King", therefore 1213, but there is one earlier rector mentioned before Lutherfield: "John de More was rector, and by deed sans date received Robert Mautelent into the vicarage of the church of Walsoken"; there is also a mention about the "ancient valor of this church", a portion of which is reported as belonging to Ramsey Abbey "granted by John of Oxford Bishop of Norwich"; since this bishop died in 1200, the original church here was likely12th-century at the latest. The present font is described and illustrated in Paley (1844): octagonal mounted baptismal font of the Seven-Sacrament group, in the late Perpendicular style (the date 1544 is inscribed on the lower base/plinth). The basin sides contain scenes of the seven Sacraments framed in richly crocketed trefoil Ogee arches. Noted in Brendan (1849). Noted in The Ecclesiologist (XXVIII, 1867: 4-5). Noted in Didron (1859) probably after Paley. In Romilly Allen (1888). In James (1930). Studied in detail in Nichols (1994), who lists the scenes as: 1)Baptism; 2)Confirmation; 3)Penance; 4)Eucharist; 5)Holy Orders; 6)Marriage; 7)Extreme Unction; 8)Crucifixion. The underbowl has angels, some praying, some with scrolls. The base has crocketed Ogee arches with triquetra motif in the spandrels; inside the arches stand figures, of which Paley (1844) identifies St. John, St. Margaret and St. Paul, with a black-letter legend running around the shaft right under them. Another inscription, this one giving the date of the font, runs along the sides of the octagonal plinth [cf. Inscriptions area], and there are shields at each angle with instruments of the Passion. Noted in Cautley (1949). Jenkins (1999) describes this font as "spectacular." Hutton (1957) mentions scenes of the "Crucifixion and Absolution" on the basin sides and the inscription "Remember the souls of S. Honyter and Margaret his wife, and John Beforth, Chaplain 1544" [not an exact transliteration] and emblems on the lower base. One of the inscriptions is also given in Cox & Harvey (1907). Illustrated in Crossley (1941). Pevsner & Wilson (1997) note a 19th-century marble copy of this font at Glandale St. Martin's. Described and illustrated in Pevsner & Wilson (1999). Fully illustrated in Knott (2005) who identifies the figures on the stem as saints John the Baptist, Dorothy, Peter, Catherine, Paul, Stephen and Mary of Magdala. A copy of this font was made ca.1900 to be installed in the restored church of Glandford (Nrflk.)

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.67193, 0.18939

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 40′ 18.95″ N, 0° 11′ 21.8″ E

UTM: 31U 309972 5839484

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Rim Thickness: 12 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 35 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 59 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Paley (1844: unpaged)

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: 1) English - 2) Latin

Inscription Notes: The text of the inscription varies slightly depending on the source. The names are those of the donors

Inscription Location: 1) on the base, under the figures 2) on the sides of the plinth

Inscription Text: 1) "REME[m]BER YE SOUL OF S. HONYTER & MARGARET HIS WIFE AND JOH[a]N BEFORTH CHAPL[a]I[n]" 2) "ANNO D[omiI]NI MILL[e] QUI[nque]GINTE QUADR[a]G[int]E Q[ua]RTO"

Inscription Source: Paley (1844: unpaged); Brandon (1849: 90 [date only]); Cox & Harvey (1907: 184); Bond (1985, c1908:. 115); Nichols (1994: 349)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: plain flat wooden lid

REFERENCES

Allen, J. Romilly, "On the Antiquity of Fonts in Great Britain", XLIV, Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 1888, pp. 164-173; r["References"]

Anderson, M.D., The Imagery of British churches, London: John Murray, 1955

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

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

Borg, Raine, Smålands medeltida dopfuntar, Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2002

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

Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk Churches and their Treasures, London: Batsford, 1938

Cox, John Charles J., English Church Fittings Furniture and Accessories, London: B.T. Batsford, 1922

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Crossley, Frederick Herbert, English Church Craftsmanship: an Introduction to the Work of the Mediaval Period and Some Account of Later Developments, London: B.T. Batsford, 1941

Friar, Stephen, The Sutton Companion to Churches, Thrupp, Stroud (Gloucs.): Sutton Publishing, 2003

Hutton, Graham, English Parish Churches, London: Thames & Hudson, 1976

James, M. R., Suffolk and Norfolk, London, Toronto: Dent & Sons, 1930

Jenkins, Simon, England's Thousand Best Churches, London and New York: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1999 [2000 rev. printing]

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2006-04-09 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Kroesen, Justin E.A., The Interior of the medieval village church = Het middeleeuwse Dorpskerkinterieur, Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters, 2004

Nichols, Ann Eljenholm, Seeable Signs: The Iconography of the Seven Sacraments 1350-1544, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1994

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

Parker, John Henry, "Notes made during a Tour in the West of France", XXXIV, Archaeologia, 1852, pp. 273-295; r["References"]

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997

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