Gorleston on Sea / Gorleston

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Results: 15 records

B01: sacrament - baptism

Scene Description: on the southwest side of the basin

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B02: sacrament - confirmation

Scene Description: on the west side of the basin

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B03: sacrament - eucharist

Scene Description: on the northwest side of the basin

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B04: sacrament - penance

Scene Description: on the north side of the basin

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B05: sacrament - extreme unction

Scene Description: on the northeast side of the basin

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B06: New Testament - Apocalypse - Last Judgment

Scene Description: on the east side of the basin

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B07: sacrament - holy orders

Scene Description: on the southeast side of the basin

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B08: sacrament - marriage

Scene Description: on the south side of the basin

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B09: design element - architectural - arch - Ogee - 8

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view of basin - underbowl

Scene Description: the original carvings hacked off

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font and cover

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view of font base

Scene Description: the [figural?] carvings hacked off [cf. FontNotes]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: at the west end of the nave

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00748GOR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Church Rd, Gorleston on Sea, Norfolk, NR31 6LS, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Gorleston is located in the southern suburbs of Great Yarmouth, in Norfolk
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Lothingland
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Date: ca. 1470?
Century and Period: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font
Cognate Fonts: Martham, Marsham [a/p Nichols].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Peter Fairweather, of www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk, and to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for their photographs of church and font
There are three entries for Gorleston in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TG5204/gorleston/] [accessed 12 April 2023], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. White (1845) reports: "The curious antique font which had long been covered with plaster and whitewash, was cleansed in 1842, when its rich painting and gilding were found untarnished, but much of the beautiful sculpture was destroyed by the [P]uritans". Suckling (1846-1848) writes: "The font which stands in the west end of the nave, beneath a modern organ loft, is an octagonal block of stone, having seven of its sides charged with sculptures of the Romish sacraments, while the eighth compartment represents the day of Judgment. The Judge of all mankind, seated on the rainbow, and surrounded by cherubim, is calling on the dead to arise. On the lower parts of the panel are seen figures emerging from the water, and hiding beside the hills, --fulfilling the sublime declaration, that 'the sea shall give up her dead, and the wicked shall call on the mountains and the rocks to cover them.' The legend painted above is decayed, and rather obscure. It has been read, 'Surrexi a mortuis venite ad me. Amen:', which is objectionable, inasmuch as this reading would make the consummation of all things immediately consequent on the resurrection of Christ. Perhaps the words of St. Jerome might be more happily applied: 'Surgite mortui venite ad judicium'. The whole of this elaborate font, now detached from a coat of lime which completely filled in the sculptures, retains much of the painting and gilding with which it was originally illuminated." Noted in Parker (1855) and in Cautley (1949). Dowsing (1885) writes: "We did deface the font and a cross on the font [... and we took down the cover of the font". Studied and illustrated in Nichols (1994): Seven-sacrament font from ca. 1470 with remains of rich gilding and much surface disfigurement: "1644 defaced by Francis Jessup, Dowsing's deputy"; order of scenes given as: 1)Baptism; 2)Confirmation; 3)Eucharist; 4)Penance; 5)Extreme Unction; 6)Last Judgment; 7)Orders; 8)Matrimony. Nicholls (ibid.) refers to Suckling's earlier remarks on the inscription [cf. supra]. Cox & Harvey (1907) give also the latter form of the inscription. [NB: both Nichols and Bond, at least once in each, place Gorleston in Suffolk]. Pevsner & Wilson (1997) date the font "late C14" [is it a typo?]. [NB: Dowsing (1885) claims the breakage of three stoups (?) in this church: "We brake down a pot of holy water [...] We brake a holy water font in the chancel [...] and a holy water font", the last two in "Bacons isle" [aisle?]]. [NB: Suckling (ibid.) noted that "The Church at Gorleston, which is dedicated to St. Andrew, was granted by King Henry II. to the prior and convent of St. Bartholomew, in Smithfield", which would account for the church being in place there between 1154 and 1189, the dates for Henry II's term; we have no information of a font of that period in this parish].

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 413498 5825838

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: Eighth panel of the bowl, over the image
Inscription Text: 1) "Surgite mortui venite ad judicium" 2) "Surrexi a mortuius venite ad me. Amen"
Inscription Source: Cox (1907: 181); Nichols (1994: 337)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: plain flat cover; modern

REFERENCES

Anderson, M.D., The Imagery of British churches, London: John Murray, 1955
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949
Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Dowsing, William, of Stratford, The Journal of William Dowsing, of Stratford, Parliamentary visitor, appointed under a warrant from the Earl of Manchester, for demolishing the superstitious pictures and ornaments of churches &c., within the County of Suffolk, in the years 1643-1644, Ipswich: Pawsey and Hayes, 1885
Nichols, Ann Eljenholm, Seeable Signs: The Iconography of the Seven Sacraments 1350-1544, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1994
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997
Suckling, Alfred, The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk, with genealogical and architectural notices of its several towns and villages, London: John Weale [...], 1846-1848
White, William, History, gazetteer, and directory of Norfolk and the city and County of the city of Norwich [...], Sheffield: Robert Leader, 1845