Marsham / Marsam / Massam

Results: 27 records

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B01: sacrament - baptism

Scene Description: Basin E side: baptism scene in octagonal font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

B02: sacrament - eucharist

Scene Description: Basin NE side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

B03: sacrament - holy orders

Scene Description: Basin N side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

B04: sacrament - marriage

Scene Description: Basin NW side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

B05: sacrament - penance

Scene Description: Basin W side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

B06: New Testament - Apocalypse - Last Judgment - Christ in Majesty

Scene Description: Basin SW side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

B07: sacrament - extreme unction

Scene Description: Basin S side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

B08: sacrament - confirmation

Scene Description: Basin SE side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

BU01: angel - showing wings - 8

Scene Description: all around the chamfer

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

UB01: cleric - seated - holding object

Scene Description: Base, side 1: left arm broken off; right arm resting on book on the lap

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

UB02: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew - symbol - angel - with scroll

Scene Description: Base, side 2

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

UB03: cleric - seated - holding object

Scene Description: Base, side 3

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

UB04: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - symbol - eagle - with scroll

Scene Description: Base, side 4

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

UB05: cleric - seated - holding object

Scene Description: Base, side 5

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

UB06: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Luke - symbol - winged bull - with scroll

Scene Description: Base, side 6

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

UB07: cleric - seated - holding object

Scene Description: Base, side 7: the figure is only partially visible here, in the extreme right niche

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

UB08: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion

Scene Description: Base, side 8

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade - Ogee arches - trefoiled arches - crocketed pinnacle - 8

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

design element - architectural - buttress - 8

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 2 - in a quatrefoil - cusped quatrefoil

Scene Description: On each of the sides of the octagonal plinth

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2005 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/319014] [accessed 16 May 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2005 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/319011] [accessed 16 May 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2005 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/319018] [accessed 16 May 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior - south aisle - detail

Scene Description: south wall window

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: diigital image of an illustration in Cautley (1949: 134)

Copyright Instructions: PD

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)

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2005 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/319016] [accessed 16 May 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 00755MAR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Church Ln, Marsham, Norfolk, NR10 5PP, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

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

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]

Date: ca. 1470?

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

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font

Cognate Fonts: Martham, Gorleston

Church Notes: late-13thC (?) church; re-built 15thC;

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.739073, 1.289213

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 44′ 20.66″ N, 1° 17′ 21.17″ E

UTM: 31U 384502 5844618

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

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

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

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

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

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-06-25 00:00:00. 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

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

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

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928

Wall, James Charles, Porches and Fonts, London: W. Gardner, Danton & Co., 1912