Brundall / Brundala / Brundale
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Scene Description: Font ca. 1949 -- note the graffiti on the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cautley, 1949
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Cautley (1949: 127)
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New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion
Scene Description: Repeated figure with extended arms separated by panels of plant motif
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design element - motifs - foliage - acanthus
Scene Description: Repeated between the Cucifixion scenes
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design element - patterns - floral - acanthus
Scene Description: The same motif as in the basin panels now forming a pattern all around the basin lower rim
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00783BRU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2000-07-28
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Workshop/Group/Artisan: lead font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Laurence
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the West end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Address: Church Lane, Brundall, Norfolk, NR13 5NA
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A47, 11 km E of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Blofield [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
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There are six entries for Brundall [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TG3208/brundall/] [accessed 22 January 2023], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Laurence; the ancient valor was 5 marks; paid Peter-pence 6d. carvage 2d. and in the reign of Edward I. paid to the hundred 58s. per ann. the present valor is 4l. 10s. and is discharged [...] William occurs rector in the 52d of Henry III.[i.e., 1268] and John de Blomevile in the 22d [i.e., 1294] of Edward I." The present font, probably the one from the original church here, is listed in Paley (1844) and Cox (1875) as a "leaden font", and in Andre (1882) and Lethaby (1893) as Norman. Andre (1899) writes: "There is a very interesting leaden font at Brundal, where the bowl has several crucifixes upon it, the date is very late Norman, or more probably Early English, the figure of our Lord has the feet uncrossed." In Cox & Harvey (1907) as a lead baptismal font of the 13th century. In Bond (1908) as a lead font of the 13th century. Illustrated in Cautley (1949). In Pevsner & Wilson (1997). Knott (2011) writes: "there are plenty of medieval survivals here, including East Anglia's only lead font. it is contemporary with the church building, its design depicting a repeated motif of the crucifixion and fleur-de-lys. It seems curiously primitive compared with lead fonts found elsewhere in the country, for example Low Halstow and Brookland in Kent." On-site notes: cylindrical 13th-century lead font mounted on a modern stone support; the sides of the basin repeat the scene of Christ on the cross framed by vertical panels which contain acanthus motif ornamentation; at the lower rim of the basin there is a band of the same motif as the vertical panels, repeated all around. Curiously enough, the lead basin actually has a lead lining.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 393574 5831573
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.623711, 1.427748
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 37′ 25.36″ N, 1° 25′ 39.89″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: metal, lead
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: no drainage system
Drainage Notes: Added lead lining
Rim Thickness: 7 cm* (includes lining)
Diameter (inside rim): 40 cm* (includes lining)
Diameter (includes rim): 54 cm* (includes lining)
Basin Depth: 22 cm* (26-27 cm* without the lining)
Height of Basin Side: 28 cm*
Basin Total Height: 28 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 97 cm* [modern base]
Font Height (with Plinth): 105 cm* [modern base & plinth]
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site [NB: the measurements of the basin include thickness of the additional lining].
REFERENCES
- André, J. Lewis, "Leaden Fonts in Sussex", 32, Surrey Archaeological Collections, relating to the history and antiquities of the county, 1882
- André, J. Lewis, "Notes on Ritualistic Ecclesiology in North-East Norfolk", XLVI, Archaeological Journal, 1889, pp. 136-155; p. 146
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 7: 219-221 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78337] [accessed 7 August 2013]
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 79, 87
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949, p. 127
- Clayton, Brian C., "English Church Fonts of Ornamental Lead Work", X, no. 57, Apollo: a Journal of the Arts, 1929, pp. 133-138; p. 133-138
- Cox, John Charles, 1875-1877
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 164
- Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
- Lethaby, William Richard, Leadwork, old and ornamental, and for the most part English [...] with illustrations, London; New York: Macmillan & co., 1893, p. 62
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 24
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 416