Gresham / Gersam / Gresham
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B01: Church - sacrament - baptism
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B01: sacrament - baptism
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B02: church - sacrament - eucharist - detail
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B02: Church - sacrament - eucharist
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B02: sacrament - eucharist
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B03: Church - sacrament - penance
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B04: Church - sacrament - marriage
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B04: sacrament - marriage
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B05: Church - sacrament - holy orders
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B05: sacrament - holy orders
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B06: New Testament - Public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - John the Baptist holding water container - angel holding clothes
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B06: New Testament - Public life of Christ - baptism of Christ
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B07: Church - sacrament - extreme unction - detail
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B07: Church - sacrament - extreme unction - detail
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B07: Church - sacrament - extreme unction
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B07: sacrament - extreme unction
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B08: Church - sacrament - confirmation
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B08: sacrament - confirmation
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view of font and cover - east side
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church exterior - southwest end
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken 17 June 1979 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/G/Gresham All Saints church tower and porch [6019] 1979-06-17.jpg] [accessed 19 September 2013]
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view of font and cover in context - east side
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view of church interior - looking west
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view of church interior - looking east
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00751GRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1500?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Notes: round-tower church
Church Address: Church Rd, Gresham, Norfolk, NR11 8RT, United Kingdom
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A148, 7 km WSW of Cromer and the coast
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of North Erpingham
Additional Comments: lucky font: Nichols (1992: 339 et al.) attributes the excellent state of conservation to the fact that it was covered in plaster at an early stage, therefore evading the iconoclast attacks of the period -- disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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The two entries in Domesday "Gersam" and "Gresham" related to this place omit any mantion of church or cleric in it, but a church here must have been built soon thereafter, certainly by the priod 1154-1189, because, as Blomefield (1805-1810) notes, "in the reign of Henry II. Richard, son of William Branche, by deed, sans date, granted to the priory of Castleacre, the administration and disposal of the tithes which they held (by the gift of his ancestors, [...] of the demeans of this lordship, after the decease of Simon, his son, rector of this church, to whom Robert, the prior, and the convent, had let them to farm for life." Additionally, the tower of the present church is probably Norman. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 refers to the font at Gresham St. Mary's as: "a curiously sculptured font". Described and illustrated in Bond (1908). Noted in Cautley (1949). Octagonal mounted font of the Seven-sacrament group described and studied in Nichols (1992), who attributes the excellent state of conservation to the fact that it was covered in plaster at an early stage, therefore evading the iconoclastic attacks of the period; order of the scenes around the basin sides: 1)Baptism; 2)Eucharist; 3)Penance; 4)Matrimony; 5)Holy Orders; 6)Baptism of Christ; 7)Extreme Unction; 8)Confirmation. Nichols gives the date as circa 1500 and mentions a probable change in the original orientation. Illustrated in part in Tasker (1993). Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997) with date "C15". Knott (2005) writes of this church: "it contains one of the best of the East Anglian seven sacrament fonts series. This is one where the panels are crammed with features, the people almost jostling for position, and the figures are so expressive - look at the Priest and dying man in the Last Rites panel! There are intriguing little details, like the sacring bell and rope in the Mass panel. The condition also puts it among the best of the series. The eighth panel depicts the Baptism of Christ in the Jordan, including God the Father in Heaven releasing the dove of the Holy Spirit." [NB: we have no information on the fonr of the original 12th-century church here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/gresham/gresham.htm] for his photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 380308 5862655
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.900231, 1.220508
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 54′ 0.83″ N, 1° 13′ 13.83″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin?
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat octagonal base with four scroll ribs at 90-degree angles, with knob finial; appears modern
REFERENCES
- Anderson, M.D., The Imagery of British churches, London: John Murray, 1955, p. 200 fn3
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 8: 126-129 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78422] [accessed 19 September 2013]
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 253, 259, 263, 264 and ill. on p. 260 and 261
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949, p. 23
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 168
- Friar, Stephen, The Sutton Companion to Churches, Thrupp, Stroud (Gloucs.): Sutton Publishing, 2003, p. 203
- 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, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=50990] [accessed 8 January 2007]
- Nichols, Ann Eljenholm, Seeable Signs: The Iconography of the Seven Sacraments 1350-1544, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1994, p. 7, 89, 176, 195, 208, 224, 225, 229, 234-235, 242n, 243n, 244, 245, 246, 253n, 255, 259, 261, 262, 275, 276, 289, 299, 317, 318, 339, and pl. 36, 42, 62, 69, 74
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 530
- Tasker, Edward G., Encyclopedia of Medieval Church Art, London: B.T. Batsford, 1993, p. 196, 197, 199 and plates