Seething / Silinga [Domesday] / Sithinga [Domesday]

Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

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B01: sacrament - baptism

Scene Description: on one of the panels of the basin side

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/seething/seething.htm

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B02: sacrament - eucharist

Scene Description: on one of the panels of the basin side

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/seething/seething.htm

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B03: sacrament - confirmation

Scene Description: on one of the panels of the basin side

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/seething/seething.htm

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B04: sacrament - penance

Scene Description: on one of the panels of the basin side

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/seething/seething.htm

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B05: sacrament - extreme unction

Scene Description: on one of the panels of the basin side

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/seething/seething.htm

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B06: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ

Scene Description: on one of the panels of the basin side

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/seething/seething.htm

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B07: sacrament - holy orders

Scene Description: on one of the panels of the basin side

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/seething/seething.htm

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B08: sacrament - marriage

Scene Description: on one of the panels of the basin side

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/seething/seething.htm

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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol - 4

Scene Description: at 90-degree angles of the lower base

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Cautley (1949: 136)

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the publisher

angel - holding shield or scroll - 8

Scene Description: on the sides of the underbowl

Image Source: detail of digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/seething/seething.htm

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cleric? - 4

Scene Description: one on every other side of the pedestal base

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/seething/seething.htm

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design element - motifs - floral - rose - square rose - 4

Scene Description: one on every other side of the pedestal base

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/seething/seething.htm

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Thatched nave roof" SCREEN B&W photograph taken 17 September 1966 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Seething St Margaret's church screen W side [5090] 1966-09-17.jpg] [accessed 5 March 2014] Photo caption: "Upper part modern, but base old, coloured and with diapered panels"

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 25 March 1940 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Seething St Margaret's church from SE [3351] 1940-03-25.jpg] [accessed 5 March 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southwest end

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Early Norman round tower"

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 28 May 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Seething St Margaret's church tower [5807] 1977-05-28.jpg] [accessed 5 March 2014]

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

Scene Description: view from the nave

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 17 September 1966 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Seething St Margaret's church screen W side [5090] 1966-09-17.jpg] [accessed 5 March 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - west end - north side - painting

Scene Description: the top of the basin and the font cover in the foreground -- Photo caption: "North wall of nave of St Christopher, 3 living and 3 dead etc"

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 28 May 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Seething St Margaret's church wall painting [5808] 1977-05-28.jpg] [accessed 5 March 2014]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Cautley (1949: 136)

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the publisher

view of font - south and southeast sides

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Seven sacrament font. S panel Ordination, SE panel Baptism of Our Lord"

Image Source: digital image of a detail of a B&W photograph taken 17 September 1966 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Seething St Margaret's church font S and SE [5091] 1966-09-17.jpg] [accessed 5 March 2014]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: notice the medieval wall paintings behind the font

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/seething/seething.htm

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/seething/seething.htm

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view of font in context - south and southeast sides

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Seven sacrament font. S panel Ordination, SE panel Baptism of Our Lord"

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 17 September 1966 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Seething St Margaret's church font S and SE [5091] 1966-09-17.jpg] [accessed 5 March 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00763SEE

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret and St. Remigius

Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina] & St. Remigius

Church Location: Seething Street, Seething, Norfolk NR15 1DL

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located about 15 km EES of Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Loddon

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

Date: ca. 1473? / ca. 1480?

Century and Period: 15th century (late?) [re-cut], Perpendicular [altered?]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font

Cognate Fonts: It follows the same order of the Sacraments as the font at Sloley; also similar to the one at nearby Brooke

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for the photographs of this font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church and font taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1940, 1966 and 1977

Church Notes: round-tower church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are ten entries for Seething [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TM3197/seething/] [accessed 5 March 2014], one of which mentions a church with lands in it, while another entry mentions two churches with lands in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) explains that the "two churches endowed with 16 acres [...] here mentioned were those of Framingham-Earl's, and Framingham Picot, in Hensted hundred". Of the other church, Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church was dedicated to St. Margaret, and was a rectory", but by his time "It is now served by a stipendiary curate, appointed by the corporation of Norwich." The church or its advowson had been the object of claims and counter-claims by the abbot of Langley and the bishop of Norwich, and Blomefield (ibid.) accounts for a rector in it: "In the 25th of Henry III. Richard was rector", which means the rectory was still around in 1241, but "the advowson of the moiety of the church of St. Margaret, granted to the abbot and his successours, on the cession or death of Richard the rector." Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports "an elaborately-sculptured font" in this church. Described and illustrated in Cautley (1949) as a baptismal of the Seven-Sacrament group that is "interesting because it differs in detail from some of the others." James (1930) states that "the Seven Sacraments font has been so recut as to be without interest". Studied in detail by Nichols (1992), who dates it to ca. 1473 and comments on the recutting it has undergone and the various comments by authors on the extent of the alterations. Nichols (ibid.) gives the scenes as: 1)Baptism; 2)Eucharist) 3)Confirmation; 4)Penance; 5)Extreme Unction; 6)Baptism of Christ; 7)Holy Orders; 8)Marriage. The chamfer of the underbowl has angels holding shields or scrolls. The pedestal of the base continues the marked buttresses of the basin down to the lower volume where the four symbols of the Evangelists occupy every other side; on the upper sides of the pedestal standing clerical (?) figures occupy alternate sides with square roses. Pevsner & Wilson (1999) do not mention the alterations and note it as an "extremely fine Perp[endicular] piece of c. 1480, almost completely undamaged." Knott (2005) provides full illustrations of the panels and comments: "the font is almost entirely recut, and to such an extent that there is no guarantee that what it shows now has anything to do with what was there before. Further, the whole piece is clearly a composite, and the cement that glued the bowl on to the stem is now cracking and coming away. The stone at the top of the stem is a quite different colour to the stone of the bowl, and probably they came from different fonts." Knott further suggests that, given the similarities with the fonts at Soley and nearby Brooke, one possibility is that the recut used those two fonts as guide to render a new program; the other possibility offered by Knott is that "the whole things is a clever fake, but the Confirmation panel is convincing." [NB: we have no information on the font from the original Domesday-time church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.529884, 1.419103

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 31′ 47.58″ N, 1° 25′ 8.77″ E

UTM: 31U 392760 5821150

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: octagonal and flat, with moulded edges; modern; has donation plate on the side

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

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: 2006-04-09 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 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999