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

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B02: church - sacrament - eucharist - detail

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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

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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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B07: Church - sacrament - extreme unction

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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: sacrament - extreme unction

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B08: Church - sacrament - confirmation

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B08: sacrament - confirmation

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view of church exterior - southwest end

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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INFORMATION

FontID: 00751GRE

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Church Rd, Gresham, Norfolk, NR11 8RT, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

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

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: ca. 1500?

Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

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

Church Notes: round-tower church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.900231, 1.220508

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 54′ 0.83″ N, 1° 13′ 13.83″ E

UTM: 31U 380308 5862655

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tasker, Edward G., Encyclopedia of Medieval Church Art, London: B.T. Batsford, 1993