Trunch / Trunchet
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Standing permission
Results: 21 records
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the wooden cover is modern
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/trunch/trunch.htm] [accessed 27 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: Detail of a B&W photograph in Bond (1908)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of font and canopy, baldachin - canopy
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cautley, 1949
Image Source: Cautley (1949: p. 138)
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the publisher
symbol - cross
Scene Description: one of the sides of the basin has the motif arranged around a cross
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cautley, 1949
Image Source: Cautley (1949: p. 138)
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the publisher
design element - architectural - tracery
Scene Description: each side different from the others
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cautley, 1949
Image Source: Cautley (1949: p. 138)
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the publisher
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 30 October 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/T/Trunch St Botolph's church from SE [5878] 1977-10-30.jpg] [accessed 27 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of font and canopy, baldachin - canopy
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: photograph taken 30 July 1988 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
view of church interior - chancel and screen
Scene Description: seen from the west side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/trunch/trunch.htm] [accessed 27 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and canopy, baldachin in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/trunch/trunch.htm] [accessed 27 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - chancel - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Bearing the figures of the eleven apostles and St Paul. Legacy of John Gogle in 1498"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 28 May 1950 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/T/Trunch St Botolph's church screen [3854] 1950-05-28.jpg] [accessed 27 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of font and canopy, baldachin - canopy
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Mediaeval hexagonal font and carved wooden canopy"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 28 May 1950 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/T/Trunch St Botolph's church font baptistry [3855] 1950-05-28.jpg] [accessed 27 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church interior - nave - ceiling
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Arch-braced hammerbeam nave roof with traceried spandrels"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 28 May 1950 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/T/Trunch St Botolph's church from SE [5878] 1977-10-30.jpg] [accessed 27 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of font and canopy, baldachin - canopy
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: B&W photograph in Bond (1908)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of font canopy, baldachin - canopy - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/trunch/trunch.htm] [accessed 27 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font canopy, baldachin - canopy - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Humphrey Bolton, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 October 2008 by Humphrey Bolton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1064626] [accessed 27 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font canopy, baldachin - canopy - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2008
Image Source: Detail digital photograph taken 9 December 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1075204] [accessed 27 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font canopy, baldachin - canopy - detail
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Carving of the wooden canopy. Its date is probably 1500, but no record of the gift of the donor has so far been found. Some of the original colouring survives"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 28 May 1950 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/T/Trunch St Botolph's church baptistry detail [3857] 1950-05-28.jpg] [accessed 27 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
design element - architectural - tracery
Scene Description: and many other decorative motifs on the ornate canopy
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cautley, 1949
Image Source: Cautley (1949: p. 138)
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the publisher
design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches - 12
Scene Description: in pairs, around the six sides of the stem of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cautley, 1949
Image Source: Cautley (1949: p. 138)
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the publisher
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Davies (1962)
Image Source: Davies (1962: pl. 25 [detail])
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of font and canopy, baldachin - canopy
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Davies (1962)
Image Source: Davies (1962: pl. 25)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01072TRU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1350? [Jenkins]
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Botolph
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, under a canopy
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Botulph [aka St. Botolph, Botolph of Thorney, Botulf]
Church Address: Back Street, Trunch, Norfolk NR28 0AH
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5 km NE of North Walsham, SE of Cromer, near the coast.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of North Erpingham
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Trunch [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG2834/trunch/] [accessed 2 March 2015], one of which mentions a church and church lands in it. The Domesday entry for "Trunchet", transcribed and translated in Blomefield (1805-1810) reports "a church endowed with 10 acres" in it; this same author (ibid.) notes: "The Church is dedicated to St. Botolph, and is a regular pile, with a nave, 2 isles, and a chancel covered with lead, and has a tower with 4 bells." This author makes no mention of the font or the canopy in this church. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 notes: "the font has a canopy of wood carved with tabernacle-work, supported by columns." Andre (1889) writes: "The canopy enclosing the font at Trunch is so well known that it is only alluded to here as displaying traces of a crucifix and its attendant figures, having been once fixed on its east side." Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a baptismal font of the 15th century; the polygonal (hexagonal?) basin sides are covered with fine ornamentation, each panel different; the polygonal pedestal also has finely carved panels. The "Gothic" hexagonal covering -a very elaborate canopy- consists of six slender columns on wich rests a very ornate top. Cautley (1949) describes the canopy as: "The great glory of Norfolk" and compares it to the one at St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, which he finds "very much handicapped by its present top, which is a very poor restoration." Pevsner & Wilson (1997) briefly note the "modest" font and dedicate more space to the "canopy of c. 1500". Jenkins (1999) dates the font to ca. 1350 and "the huge hexagonal canopy, which would once have housed the font cover" to ca. 1500; he describes the canopy as being "in the form of the gazebo on six legs rising from the floor to an intricate ogival crown. The legs are carved with foliage and animals such as squirrels, a monkey, a pig and a dog. Higher up is a wolf with its jaws open and tongue hanging out. The canopy proper has canopied niches which turn into a crown of flying buttresses encrusted with crockets. The composition is more decorative than artistic, and great fun." Hutton (1957) dates the font to the late 15th century and the canopy to the 16th century, Tudor period. Font and canopy are illustrated in Knott (2005). The font-cover is noted and illustrated in Howard & Crossley (1919). [NB: we have no information on the font from the Domesday-time church here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk] and Timothy Marlow, for their photographs of this church and font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church and font taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1950 and 1977
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 392016 5858131
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.862062, 1.395997
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 51′ 43.42″ N, 1° 23′ 45.59″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: hexagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal?
LID INFORMATION
Date: ca. 1500
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: The canopy over and around the font [cf. FontNotes for details] -- the cover itself is modern
REFERENCES
- André, J. Lewis, "Notes on Ritualistic Ecclesiology in North-East Norfolk", XLVI, Archaeological Journal, 1889, pp. 136-155; p. 145
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 8: 179-181 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78440] [accessed 27 September 2013]
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 247, 289, 301 and ill. on p. 293
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949, p. 25
- Cook, G.H., English Mediaeval Parish Church, London: Phoenix House, 1954, pl. 106
- Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962, ix, 75 and pl. 25
- Howard, F.E., English Church Woodwork: a Study in Craftmanship during the Mediaeval period A.D. 1250-1550, London: B.T. Batsford, 1919, ill. on p. 320
- Hutton, Graham, English Parish Churches, London: Thames & Hudson, 1976, p. 55 and pl. 138
- Jenkins, Simon, England's Thousand Best Churches, London and New York: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1999 [2000 rev. printing], p. 480
- 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=51355] [accessed 13 March 2007]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 700