Little Walsingham / Galsingaham / New Walsingham / Walsingaha

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B01: sacrament - baptism

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2007 by Simon Knott [[www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/littlewalsinghamstmary/littlewalsinghamstmary.htm] [accessed 10 March 2012]

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B02: sacrament - confirmation

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B03: sacrament - eucharist

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B04: sacrament - penance

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B05: sacrament - extreme unction

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B06: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist

Scene Description: a/p description in Nichols

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2007 by Simon Knott [[www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/littlewalsinghamstmary/littlewalsinghamstmary.htm] [accessed 10 March 2012]

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B07: sacrament - marriage

Scene Description: taken ca. 1949, before the fire

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2007 by Simon Knott [[www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/littlewalsinghamstmary/littlewalsinghamstmary.htm] [accessed 10 March 2012]

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B08: sacrament - holy orders

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2007 by Simon Knott [[www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/littlewalsinghamstmary/littlewalsinghamstmary.htm] [accessed 10 March 2012]

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Apostle or saint - Church Father - 4

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2007 by Simon Knott [[www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/littlewalsinghamstmary/littlewalsinghamstmary.htm] [accessed 10 March 2012]

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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol - 4

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2007 by Simon Knott [[www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/littlewalsinghamstmary/littlewalsinghamstmary.htm] [accessed 10 March 2012]

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angel - head - 8

Scene Description: one at each corner of the chamfer (some broken off) -- Photograph in Cautley; taken ca. 1949, before the fire

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Cautley (1949: 135)

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design element - architectural - arcade - Gothic arches - crocketed arches - traceried arches - 8

Scene Description: richly ornamented, the tracery inside, the crockets above; each of seven contains a Sacrament scene; the eighth, a Crucifixion

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2007 by Simon Knott [[www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/littlewalsinghamstmary/littlewalsinghamstmary.htm] [accessed 10 March 2012]

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design element - architectural - buttress - crocketed pinnacle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2007 by Simon Knott [[www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/littlewalsinghamstmary/littlewalsinghamstmary.htm] [accessed 10 March 2012]

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design element - motifs - floral - 8

Scene Description: a pair on every other side of the lower base

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Cautley (1949: 135)

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design element - motifs - leaf - 8

Scene Description: one at each side of the chamfer -- Photograph in Cautley; taken ca. 1949, before the fire

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Cautley (1949: 135)

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design element - patterns - tracery

Scene Description: sveral of them, including quatrefoils with inserted floral motifs, saltire crosses, etc.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2007 by Simon Knott [[www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/littlewalsinghamstmary/littlewalsinghamstmary.htm] [accessed 10 March 2012]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2007 by Simon Knott [[www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/littlewalsinghamstmary/littlewalsinghamstmary.htm] [accessed 10 March 2012]

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view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 13 August 1935 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/L/Lt Walsingham St Mary's church W end [0690] 1935-08-13.jpg] [accessed 13 December 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2007 by Simon Knott [[www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/littlewalsinghamstmary/littlewalsinghamstmary.htm] [accessed 10 March 2012]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font at the far end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2007 by Simon Knott [[www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/littlewalsinghamstmary/littlewalsinghamstmary.htm] [accessed 10 March 2012]

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view of church interior - nave - west end

Scene Description: with the font and cover in the centre of the aisle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2007 by Simon Knott [[www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/littlewalsinghamstmary/littlewalsinghamstmary.htm] [accessed 10 March 2012]

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view of font

Scene Description: Photograph in Cautley; taken ca. 1949, before the fire

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Cautley (1949: 135)

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view of font

Scene Description: Etching in and by Cotman [1812]

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Cotman (1838, vol. 1: pl. XLIV)

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in B&W photograph in Bond (1908)

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view of font

Scene Description: in 1812

Image Source: digital image of an etching in the British Museum 'Engraved by J. Le Keux from a Drawing by F. Mackenzie - for the Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain / London: Published Oct. 1, 1812, by Longman & Co. Paternoster Row. / Printed by Hayward.'" [ref.: AN1135735001.

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view of font

Scene Description: Photo caption: "15c seven sacrament font"

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 28 July 1950 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/L/Lt Walsingham St Mary's church font [3964] 1950-07-28.jpg] [accessed 13 December 2013]

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view of font and canopy, baldachin in context

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 28 July 1950 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/L/Lt Walsingham St Mary's church font [3963] 1950-07-28.jpg] [accessed 13 December 2013]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2007 by Simon Knott [[www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/littlewalsinghamstmary/littlewalsinghamstmary.htm] [accessed 10 March 2012]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00768WAL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary [aka St. Mary and All Saints]

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin [St. Mary & All Saints

Church Location: Sunk Road, Walsingham, Norfolk NR22 6BL

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Little or New Walshingham is located abot 16 km N of Fakenham, 48 km NW of Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Norh Greehow

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

Date: ca. 1470? / ca. 1510?

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

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font

Cognate Fonts: Fonts at Laxfield, Suffolk and Walsoken. A copy of this font is found at Sheringham St. Joseph's, also in Norfolk.

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk] for his photographs of church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry in the Domesday survey for Walsingham [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/XX0000/great-and-little-walsingham/] [accessed 13 December 2013]. Blomefield (1805-1810) notes that "The Church of All-Saints [...] was given, by deed sans date, to the church of St. Mary of Walsingham [...] The Church of St. Mary in Walsingham Parva, was a rectory [...] it was granted, and appropriated to the priory about the year 1280 [i.e., Walsingham priory, originally from 1061 but thrived after the Conquest; dedicated to the Annunciation; regular Augustinian canons -- Little Walsingham had its own priory, that of the Greyfriars, founded in the mid-14thC] [...] The church is a regular pile, with a nave, north and south isle, and a chancel covered with lead, and has a square tower, with a spire, and 5 bells." The present baptismal font is described in Gough (1792): "adorned with the Seven Sacraments and the Crucifixion, and the shaft with Apostles defaced in the civil war. It stands on a high octangular base, and the cover is a cupola with four pillars." The British Museum has an etching of this font "Lettered below image with the title, dedication to the Honourable and Revd. Henry Cockayne over two lines, production details and publication line: 'Engraved by J. Le Keux from a Drawing by F. Mackenzie - for the Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain / London: Published Oct. 1, 1812, by Longman & Co. Paternoster Row. / Printed by Hayward.'" [ref.: AN1135735001. Prints & Drawings Dept. Registration number: 1870,1008.259. Location: British XIXc Unmounted Roy]. Described and illustrated in Cotman (1838), with several earlier sources quoted in it (including Gough's and Repton's work published in 'Archaeologia'). Noted in Britton's Dictionary of 1838. In Poole (1842), after Britton. The Gentleman's Magazine (issue for July 1842, p. 78) reports on the 3rd annual meeting of the Oxford Architectural Society held on 6 June of the same year in which the chair, the rector of Exeter College, Oxford, acknowledged the present, among others, of "a lithographic print of the font in Little Walsingham church, Norfolk, by G. R. Lewis, esq." Noted in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848: "a very ancient and beautiful font, of octagonal form, resting on a pl.inth of four ornamented steps, and representing, in compartments, the Seven Sacraments of the Church of Rome, and the Crucifixion." Described and illustrated in Bond (1908): "The pedestal at New Walsingham is ornamented with representation of the four Evangelists, the four Living Creatures and the four Latin Fathers of the Church"; he describes also the angel heads ornamenting the chamfer (ibid.), and mentions "remains of rich gilding and varied colouring" on the font (ibid.) The font is raised on two large plinths in the manner of steps, the upper one has carved in another step in every-other face; the upper steps are decorated with quatrefoil motifs, while the lower ones have saltire crosses of Gothic arms. Bond (ibid.) informs that a cast of this font could be seen in his time [ca. 1908] in the Crystal Palace, and that another cast of the same font was at Hull (but follows up with a footnote: "Unless, with other valuable casts of mediaeval work, it has recently been broken up by the Art Committee of the Hull Corporation"). Described and illustrated in Gardner (1925), who dates it ca. 1470 and states that "although the general effect is rich, the sculpture is foor and flat." Fully studied in Nichols (1994) who describes it as "excellent remains, particularly of custom detail" despite a 20th century (1961) fire. Nichols (ibid.) gives the basin scenes in the following order: 1)Baptism; 2)Confirmation; 3)Eucharist; 4)Penance; 5)Extreme Unction; 6)Crucifixion; 7)Matrimony; 8)Holy Orders; she dates the font to ca. 1510. Cautley (1949) compares this font to the one at Loddon, but describes this as "far more graceful"; the cover itself is dated in Cautley (ibid.) to 1625. Pevsner & Wilson (1997) note: "Almost the perfect Norfolk font (so good that a cast of it was shown at the Great Exhibition), or it would be, if it were better preserved." On the cover, Pevsner & Wilson (ibid.) write: "By John Hayward, 1964, replacing the 1625 cover". The English Heritage entry for this church [Listing NGR: TF9352836490] informs: "Church [...] C14 and C15. In 1961 gutted by fire [...] The C17 font cover was destroyed in the fire, which also destroyed C15 screens." [NB: cf. Lid notes below for more details on the old font cover]. Described and illustrated showing all panels in Knott (2007). In his entry for Sheringham St. Joseph, Knott (2006) remarks on its "apparently medieval font just inside the door is, in fact, a superb copy of the Little Walsingham seven sacraments font." [NB: we have no information on the baptismal of the original 13th-century(?) church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.89112, 0.874878

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 53′ 28.03″ N, 0° 52′ 29.56″ E

UTM: 31U 357033 5862273

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin & numbers

Inscription Notes: "A gift of Jane, Lady Sidney, in memory of her pious mind" [cf. Lid notes for more details on the font cover]

Inscription Location: On font cover (now in a loft?)

Inscription Text: "EX DONO JANE DOMINAE SIDNEY, IN PIAE MENTIS INDICIUM" "1544"

Inscription Source: Cox & Harvey (1907: 184); Bond (1985 c1908: 307, 313)

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1610? / 1625? - 17th century [chiefly a 1964 restoration]

Material: wood, oak?

Notes: Bond (1908) quotes the following passage [a description of the font cover by a Mr. G. R. Lewis] which is also the closing of paragraph of his book: "a high canopy; in design, arabesque heathenism. In this design , bearing the date 1610, we have neither a beginning nor an end, unless the end of it was shut up the font; for this stupid piece of deformity is screwed tight enough down on the top of the font, with the exception of one of its spindles which is loose, and admits of being removed in case parents should wish their infants immersed, when the opening would be found just wide enough to admit of the child being poked through." Bond (ibid.) continues to inform that "the cover was removed and stowed away in a loft. It is inscribed 'Ex dono Jane dominæ Sidney, in piæ mentis indicium'. Alas for Lady Sidney's pious mind! She had wished that her body should be buried in peace and that her name should live for evermore; but now she is of them 'which have no memorial; who are perished as though they had never been, and are become as though they had never been born.'" [NB: the font has now -July 2000- a modern cover, but the old cover is visible in Cautley's photograph of 1949 below]

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

Borg, Raine, Smålands medeltida dopfuntar, Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2002

Britton, John, A Dictionary of the Architecture and Archaeology of the Middle Ages, including […], London: Longman, Orne, Brown, Green, and Longmann, Paternoster Row, and the Author, Burton Street, 1838

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

Cotman, John Sell, Specimens of Architectural Remains in Various Counties in England, but principally in Norfolk, London: H.G. Bohn, 1838

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

Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962

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

Gardner, Samuel, A Guide to English Gothic Architecture (illustrated by numerous drawings & photographs), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1925

Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; r["References"]

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.

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-07-02 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

Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844

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

Poole, George Ayliffe, The Appropriate Character of Church Architecture, Leeds; London: T.W. Green; Rivington, Burns, and Houlston and Stoneman, 1842

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