Earsham / Hersam

Results: 15 records

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B01: sacrament - eucharist

Image Source: photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

B02: sacrament - confirmation

Image Source: photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

B03: sacrament - baptism

Image Source: photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

B04: sacrament - holy orders

Image Source: photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

B05: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist

Image Source: photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

B06: sacrament - extreme unction

Image Source: photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

B07: sacrament - marriage

Image Source: photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

B08: sacrament - penance

Scene Description: some appear to be holding rosary beads

Image Source: photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

angel - cherub - head - 8

Scene Description: The busts of eight angels are depicted on the underbowl of the upper basin; now disfigured

Image Source: photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

design element - architectural - arch or window - pointed - 8

Image Source: photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

design element - architectural - buttress - 8

Image Source: photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

design element - motifs - quatrefoil

Scene Description: forming a pattern above all the scanes on the basin sides; this one is above the Last Rites

Image Source: photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

human figure - 8?

Eight unidentified figures once encircled the lower base; they have been removed but the little pedestals on which they stood remain, as the one seen here on the bottom, right side

Scene Description: Eight unidentified figures once encircled the lower base; they have been removed but the little pedestals on which they stood remain, as the one seen here on the bottom, right side

Image Source: photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 00744EAR

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Church Rd, Earsham, Norfolk NR35 2TJ, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off the A143, 2 km W of Bungay

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Earsham

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

Date: pre-1490 / pre-1473?

Century and Period: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Church Notes: original church here probably Norman

Font Notes: Click to view

There is an entry for Earsham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TM3188/earsham/] [accessed 6 September 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font here is noted in Cautley (1940) as a 'Seven-sacrament font'. Octagonal mounted font of the mid to late 15th century according to Nichols (1994), who also compares the details of the sculpture to the fonts at Seething and Sloley and cites traces of polychrome. It originally had figures at the arris of the basin, but they have all been broken off or disfigured, as have the images of the chamfer, base stem and a few of the figures of the Eucharist scene of the basin side. It has a neat appearance which Nichols attributes to very "thorough" cleaning (she sees traces of wire brush work on it). The scenes of the basin are: 1)Eucharist; 2)Confirmation; 3)Baptism; 4)Holy Orders; 5)Crucifixion; 6)Extreme Unction; 7)Marriage and 8)Penance. Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999) as a seven-Sacrament font of the 15th century. Described and illustrated in Knott (2005): "Earsham has one of East Anglia's thirty-odd seven sacrament fonts, but is rather different from others I have seen in that it is slim, with portrait-shaped reliefs. This require some simplification in the iconography, the Last Rites and Mass panels in particular being awkwardly squeezed into their spaces, but there is no doubt that this font is a most elegant example. The eighth 'odd panel out' is the Crucifixion. The whole thing is in excellent condition, and really deserves to be better known."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.447766, 1.422302

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 26′ 51.96″ N, 1° 25′ 20.29″ E

UTM: 31U 392778 5812012

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead lining

Rim Thickness: 12 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 53 cm*

Basin Depth: 30 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 40 cm*

Basin Total Height: 56 cm*

Height of Base: 59 cm*

Height of Central Column: 35 cm*

Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: 40 (height) x 30/31 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 115 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 78 x 86 cm* (min.&max. diagonals of the octagon)

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

Notes: low-dome shape, with a rope moulding on the side; ball finial; probably 19th-century

REFERENCES

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

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

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-07-24 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

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

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