Trunch / Trunchet

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design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches - 12

Scene Description: in pairs, around the six sides of the stem of the base

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

Image Source: Cautley (1949: p. 138)

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design element - architectural - tracery

Scene Description: and many other decorative motifs on the ornate canopy

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

Image Source: Cautley (1949: p. 138)

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the publisher

view of church exterior - southeast view

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 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"

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 church interior - chancel and screen

Scene Description: seen from the west side

Image Source: digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/trunch/trunch.htm] [accessed 27 September 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - ceiling

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Arch-braced hammerbeam nave roof with traceried spandrels"

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

Image Source: Detail of a B&W photograph in Bond (1908)

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view of font

Image Source: Davies (1962: pl. 25 [detail])

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view of font and canopy, baldachin - canopy

Image Source: Cautley (1949: p. 138)

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view of font and canopy, baldachin - canopy

Image Source: B&W photograph in Bond (1908)

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view of font and canopy, baldachin - canopy

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Mediaeval hexagonal font and carved wooden canopy"

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 font and canopy, baldachin - canopy

Image Source: photograph taken 30 July 1988 by Timothy Marlow

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view of font and canopy, baldachin - canopy

Image Source: Davies (1962: pl. 25)

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view of font and canopy, baldachin in context

Image Source: digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/trunch/trunch.htm] [accessed 27 September 2013]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the wooden cover is modern

Image Source: digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/trunch/trunch.htm] [accessed 27 September 2013]

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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"

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

view of font canopy, baldachin - canopy - detail

Image Source: Detail digital photograph taken 9 December 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1075204] [accessed 27 September 2013]

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view of font canopy, baldachin - canopy - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 October 2008 by Humphrey Bolton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1064626] [accessed 27 September 2013]

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view of font canopy, baldachin - canopy - detail

Image Source: digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/trunch/trunch.htm] [accessed 27 September 2013]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01072TRU

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Botolph

Church Patron Saints: St. Botulph [aka St. Botolph, Botolph of Thorney, Botulf]

Church Location: Back Street, Trunch, Norfolk NR28 0AH

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

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

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, under a canopy

Date: ca. 1350? [Jenkins]

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Decorated

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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.862062, 1.395997

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 51′ 43.42″ N, 1° 23′ 45.59″ E

UTM: 31U 392016 5858131

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; r["References"]

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

Cook, G.H., English Mediaeval Parish Church, London: Phoenix House, 1954

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

Howard, F.E., English Church Woodwork: a Study in Craftmanship during the Mediaeval period A.D. 1250-1550, London: B.T. Batsford, 1919

Hutton, Graham, English Parish Churches, London: Thames & Hudson, 1976

Jenkins, Simon, England's Thousand Best Churches, London and New York: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1999 [2000 rev. printing]

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

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