Marsham / Marsam / Massam
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Results: 27 records
B01: sacrament - baptism
Scene Description: Basin E side: baptism scene in octagonal font
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B02: sacrament - eucharist
Scene Description: Basin NE side
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B03: sacrament - holy orders
Scene Description: Basin N side
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B04: sacrament - marriage
Scene Description: Basin NW side
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B05: sacrament - penance
Scene Description: Basin W side
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B06: New Testament - Apocalypse - Last Judgment - Christ in Majesty
Scene Description: Basin SW side
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B07: sacrament - extreme unction
Scene Description: Basin S side
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B08: sacrament - confirmation
Scene Description: Basin SE side
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BU01: angel - showing wings - 8
Scene Description: all around the chamfer
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UB01: cleric - seated - holding object
Scene Description: Base, side 1: left arm broken off; right arm resting on book on the lap
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UB02: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew - symbol - angel - with scroll
Scene Description: Base, side 2
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UB03: cleric - seated - holding object
Scene Description: Base, side 3
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UB04: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - symbol - eagle - with scroll
Scene Description: Base, side 4
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UB05: cleric - seated - holding object
Scene Description: Base, side 5
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UB06: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Luke - symbol - winged bull - with scroll
Scene Description: Base, side 6
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UB07: cleric - seated - holding object
Scene Description: Base, side 7: the figure is only partially visible here, in the extreme right niche
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UB08: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion
Scene Description: Base, side 8
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view of font - east side
Scene Description: with the sacrament of Baptism scene in the centre panel; the Eucharist on the right (NE), and Confirmation on the left (SE)
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view of font
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Image Source: diigital image of an illustration in Cautley (1949: 134)
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2005 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/319014] [accessed 16 May 2017]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of church interior - south aisle - detail
Scene Description: south wall window
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view of font in context
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 2 - in a quatrefoil - cusped quatrefoil
Scene Description: On each of the sides of the octagonal plinth
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design element - architectural - arcade - Ogee arches - trefoiled arches - crocketed pinnacle - 8
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design element - architectural - buttress - 8
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00755MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2000-07-28
Font Date: ca. 1470?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font
Cognate Fonts: Martham, Gorleston
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end, centre nave [previous to the late-19thC restoration of the church the font was in the 2nd bay of the N aisle arcade]
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Notes: late-13thC (?) church; re-built 15thC;
Church Address: Church Ln, Marsham, Norfolk, NR10 5PP, United Kingdom
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A140, 3 km S of Aylsham, 18 km N of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of South Erpingham
Additional Comments: damaged font / vandalised font -- disappeared font? (the one from the early-14thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Marsham [variant spelling] in the Domesday Survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TG1923/marsham/] [accessed 16 May 2017], neither of which mentions priest or church in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The church is dedicated to all the Saints [...] On the font are carved the seven sacraments of the Romish church, 4 saints and 4 confessors, and St. George and the dragon"; the name of the first recorded rector here is given as "Simon de Lauselle, subdeacon", in 1321. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 notes that the font at All Saints' "is richly sculptured". Noted in the Imperial Gazetteer of 1870: "a carved font". Farrer (1887 [1885?]) describes two shields on the font: "On the Font: V. Shield of the Passion — cross and crown. -- VI. A long cross." Octagonal mounted font of the Seven-sacrament group studied in detail in Nichols (1994); it has managed to retain most of its figures intact, though some heads are damaged. The basin sides program reads (L->R): Baptism, Eucharist, Holy Orders, Marriage, Penance, Last Judgement, Extreme Unction, Confirmation, Last Judgement. The underbowl has eight angels with open wings. The stem of the base has the four symbols of the Evangelists alternating with seated clerics holding objects, some of which appear to be books. The sides of the octagonal plinth have each two motifs of a rosette inserted in a cusped quatrefoil background. Thomas (1846) writes: "Font. Per[pendicular], seven Romish sacraments over angels bearing shields; on stem, saints and confessors with scrolls under trefoil arches; two high oct[agonal] steps -- cavity in use. Position, east of north-west pier." Listed in Cox-Harvey (1907) as a 15th-century Seven-Sacrament font. Described in Bond (1908). Described and illustrated in Cautley (1949). Pevsner & Wilson (1997) described the Last Judgment scene as "ingeniously condensed". Described and fully illustrated in Knott (2005): "It is tall, elegant, and a bit like the one nearby at Burgh-next-Aylsham. But the difference here is in the quality of the carving, and the extent to which it has been lightly vandalised. The characterful details are superb, not least on the eighth panel, which here depicts the Last Judgement. Anti-clockwise from the east, the panels are : Baptism (E), the infant being fully immersed; Mass (NE), the Priest with his back to the viewer, facing the altar, the sanctus bell being rung on the left; Ordination (N), with three kneeling ordinands; Matrimony (NW), curiously the bride's head has been destroyed, but not the others; Confession (W), another curiosity, the scene set beneath a canopy representing what may be the Holy House in Nazareth; The Last Judgement (SW), Christ sits on a rainbow flanked by Mary and John, while at his feet, the dead rise from their coffins; Last Rites (S), with a mourner in front of the bed and Confirmation (SE), as usual of an infant in arms. The pillar of the font features alternating angels and evangelists; hover over the panels below for descriptions, and click on them to enlarge them."
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 384502 5844618
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.739073, 1.289213
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 44′ 20.66″ N, 1° 17′ 21.17″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead lining in the basin well
Rim Thickness: 9 cm* (12 cm* at the corners)
Diameter (inside rim): 60.5 cm*
Basin Depth: 29 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 38 cm*
Basin Total Height: 57 cm*
Height of Base: 66 cm*
Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: 30 x 38 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 123 cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): 167 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 74 x 80 cm* (min.&max. diagonals of octagon)
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: Modern flat wooden lid with tall pointed finial/handle
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. 6: 286-289 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78251] [accessed 22 May 2013]
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 259, 263
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949, 23, 24 and ill. on p. 134
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 168
- Farrer, Edmund, The Church Heraldry of Norfolk, a description of all coats of arms […] now to be found in the county […], Norwich: A.H. Goose and Co., 1885-1893, vol. 2: 44
- James, M. R., Suffolk and Norfolk, London, Toronto: Dent & Sons, 1930, p. 159
- Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
- 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=51135] [accessed 19 Febryary 2007]
- Nichols, Ann Eljenholm, Seeable Signs: The Iconography of the Seven Sacraments 1350-1544, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1994, p. 71, 80, 87n, 107n, 176, 224, 225, 230, 232, 240-241, 287, 288, 289, 299, 300, 308, 312-313, 319-320, 337, 341, 342, 344, 351, and pl. 57, 82
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 607
- Thomas, Caddy, Sketches for an ecclesiology of the deaneries of Sparham and Taverham, in Norfolk; together with some summary details of Ingworth Deanery, in the same county, Norwich; London: Jarrold and Sons; Hamilton Adams and Co., 1846, p. 207
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 130
- Wall, James Charles, Porches and Fonts, London: W. Gardner, Danton & Co., 1912, p. 316, 317