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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol - 4

Scene Description: Matthew's angel in the centre of the image here

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

angel - cherub - 8

Scene Description: one at each angle of the underbowl

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade - Ogee arches - cusped and crocketed - 8

Scene Description: view of the north-west side of the basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

design element - architectural - buttress - crocketed pinnacle - 8

Scene Description: view of the east side of the basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

design element - architectural - buttress - crocketed pinnacle - 8

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

design element - motifs - foliage?

Scene Description: parts of it are still visible on the lower volume of the base, just above the top step of the plinth

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

design element - motifs - vine - acanthus or grapevine - bearing fruit

Scene Description: part of it can still be seen on the north-west side of the base, on the bottom of the stem

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

design element - motifs, patterns and symbols - assorted

Scene Description: charged shield(s), heads, quatrefoils, etc., on the sides of the plinth steps

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

design element - patterns - crenellated

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

human figure - 16?

Scene Description: around the sides of the stem of the base; mostly obliterated now

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

sacraments?

Scene Description: Several authors (Bond, James, Nichols, etc.) identify this as a Seven-Sacrament font, but the scenes themselves have been almost totally chiselled off and are therefore barely discernible as shapes on the stone surface [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Scene Description: Trinity?: God the Father (?) with Crucified image

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - detail - shield - coat of arms

Scene Description: left angle [west side]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Built by Sir James Hobart c1496"

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 10 September 1966 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/L/Loddon Holy Trinity church from SW [5085] 1966-09-10.jpg] [accessed 4 March 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: church and churchyard

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis - detail

Scene Description: Photo caption: "15c screen. Fourth panel from right is St William of Norwich"

Image Source: digital image of a &W photograph taken 10 September 1966 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/L/Loddon Holy Trinity church screen panels [5083] 1966-09-10.jpg] [accessed 4 March 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of font - east side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

view of font - northwest side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: view from the west, looking east

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

view of font in context - north side

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Seven sacrament font, defaced during the Commonwealth"

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 10 September 1966 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/L/Loddon Holy Trinity church font north side [5084] 1966-09-10.jpg] [accessed 4 March 2014

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

INFORMATION

FontID: 00754LOD

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity

Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity

Church Location: Church Plain, Loddon, Norfolk, NR14 6EY, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off the A146, 16 km ESE of Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Loddon

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

Date: 1487

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

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font

Cognate Fonts: Pedestal cognate- Southwold, Laxfield, Badingham.

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church and font, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in September 1966

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are five entries for Loddon [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TM3698/loddon/] [accessed 4 March 2014], one of which mentions a church and lands belonging to it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The abbot and convent of St. Edmund of Bury had a considerable lordship here in the reign of King Edward; and at the survey, when Frodo was enfeoffed of it, and held of the abbey [...] Alfric, called Modercope, a noble Saxon hero, is said to have given it to the abbey, in the time of the Confessor", and, although not explicitly stated, an early church here may have part of the gift to Bury St. Edmund's. Blomefield (ibid.) adds: "The Church was dedicated to the Holy Trinity. In the old church I find a legacy granted to build a new font in 1487, and to a new battlement of the steeple, in 1500. [...] The present church was built by Sir James Hobart, in the reign of King Henry VII. and Margaret his wife, who died before him, was there buried in 1492; and is a beautiful building." The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction (no. 969, vol. xxxiv, 21 September 1839: 186) notes "The font at Loddor [sic], Norfolk, is remarkable for its elegance and richness of decoration." Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 comments: "the font, now much defaced, was formerly very beautiful." Described and illustrated in Nichols (1994); the octagonal mounted font dated to a 1487 bequest retains some of the original paint but has had all the scenes of the basin sides methodically scraped/chiselled off. Nichols (ibid.) quotes a payment of 6 shillings made to "Rochester, the glaser, defasinge of the Images of the Church" in 1642 as the probable time of the deed. The same source attempts to identify some of the remnants with the Seven Sacraments (ibid.). James (1930) states: "The font has the Seven Sacraments, the eigth panel being our Lord in Majesty". What remains now are the Gothic arches and some bumpy remnants of the scenes, the identification therefore relying as much on analogy as on the strength of the remaining evidence. The stem of the base had sixteen figures in all, now badly defaced; some have suggested the 12 Apostles and the 4 Evangelists. There are at least four animals below. Other heads (one of them a Green Man?) and animals (monsters?) can be found on other areas of the font. The font stands on a double plinth with steps, the side of which are decorated tetrafoil windows and motifs; the plinth alone measures 95 cm in height. Listed and illustrated in Cautley (1949), who reports traces of old paint on the font. Pevsner & Wilson (1999) write: "William Benys left £3 6s. 8d. For the new font in 1487. On three traceried steps, the top step cross-shaped. Animals against the foot; a little higher, but still against the foot, the signs of the four Evangelists. Againts the stem defaced (in 1642) figures. Against the bowl, also defaced, the Seven Sacraments in vaulted niches." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2005): "The font is grand, elegant even, but almost entirely defaced. It must have been magnificent in its heyday, and is still imposing. A bequest of 1487 paid for it, a font depicting the seven sacraments of the Catholic church, part of the reinforcing of orthodox Catholic teaching that is one of the main features of the late 15th century English church, probably in the face of local superstitions and abuses. Pevsner, Mortlock and the guidebook here suggest that the panels were destroyed in 1642; the churchwardens' accounts show that a Mr Rochester, a glazier of Beccles, was paid six shillings for the destruction of images. I don't believe for a moment that this means the font"

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.535114, 1.483375

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 32′ 6.41″ N, 1° 29′ 0.15″ E

UTM: 31U 397132 5821639

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead lining in the basin well

Rim Thickness: 12 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 53-54 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 78 cm*

Basin Depth: 28 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 36 cm*

Basin Total Height: 53 cm*

Height of Base: 64 cm*

Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: 32 x 36 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 117 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): 212 cm* (double plinth 50+45 cm)

Trapezoidal Basin: 78 x 84 cm* (min.&max. diagonals of the octagon)

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Notes: Flat wooden lid, 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

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

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

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

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

Miquel, Caroline, "Monuments et mobilier de la période mediévale du canton de Rieumes (Haute-Garonne)", 1997, 12, Archéo en Saves, 1997, pp. 33-65; r["References"]

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