Norwich No. 1 / Norwic

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B01: sacrament - baptism

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

B02: sacrament - confirmation

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

B03: sacrament - penance

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

B04: sacrament - eucharist

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

B05: sacrament - marriage

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

B06: sacrament - extreme unction

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

B07: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

B08: sacrament - holy orders

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Apostle or saint - unidenitfied - 8

Scene Description: one, raised on a stool or pedestal, under each canopy

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 August 2020 by Colin Smith

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angel - 8

Image Source: Jonathan Plunkett (from the collection of George Plunkett)

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design element - architectural - buttress - 8 (open and containing a figure in each)

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 August 2020 by Colin Smith

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design element - architectural - canopy - pinnacled - crocketed pinnacle - 8

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human figure - 8?

Scene Description: on the protruding arms of the lower base

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view of base

Image Source: Jonathan Plunkett (from the collection of George Plunkett)

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view of base - detail

Scene Description: one of the hooded figures

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 April 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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view of church exterior - detail

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view of church interior - ceiling - boss

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view of church interior - detail

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in James (1930: [117] -- detail)

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view of font

Image Source: Jonathan Plunkett (from the collection of George Plunkett)

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 April 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the font in the south ambulatory

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in James (1930: [117])

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01123NOR

Church/Chapel: Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity [orig. from St. Mary in the Marsh]

Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity

Church Location: 12 The Close, Norwich, Norfolk NR1 4DH

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off Palace St. and Bishopgate

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Norwich

Font Location in Church: Inside the cathedral, to the right of the Ambulatory in St. Luke's Chapel

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font

Cognate Fonts: Nichols (1992) gives East Dereham as cognate and Brooke as collateral

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this font, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1938]. We are also grateful to Janice Tostevin and Colin Smith for their photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are ten entries for Norwich [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TG2308/norwich/] [accessed 13 October 2020], one of which records "22.7 churches. 2.57 church lands" in it; a separate entry records a priest and a church in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) wites: "The font is very ancient, being that which stood in the church of St. Mary in the Marsh; there are upon it the carvings of the seven Sacraments, and the four Evangelists, besides other saints, popes, and confessors", and gives its location in the chapel of St. Luke the Evangelist. Noted in Britton (1814-1835). In Poole (1842), with referenvce to Britton. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports: "The font, in St. Luke's chapel, is remarkably beautiful". Noted in Cautley (1949). Studied in detail in Nichols (1994) who gives the scenes on the basin as: 1)Baptism; 2)Confirmation; 3)Penance; 4)Eucharist; 5)Marriage; 6)Extreme Unction; 7)Crucifixion; 8)Holy Orders. The Norwich Cathedral guide (1990) reads: "The font of the long vanished parish church of St. Mary in the Marsh is the cathedral font. It is an example of a Seven sacraments font, once popular in East Anglia. (One sacrament is depicted on seven faces of the bowl and the eighth face shows the crucifixion." This is a very ornate font, with each scene framed in a richly decorated environment; the eight sides have matching ornament on the underbowl, stem and base.; the elements which serve to separate the scenes are very ornate in the bowl, with a niche containing a figure in each of the buttresses, plain columns in the stem and figures at the lower base. Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "The font, which came from the destroyed church, is a sumptuous piece of the C15 East Anglian type, with eith seated figurines on the foot, eight standing figurines against the stem, and the Seven Sacraments separated by eight angels against the bowl." The British Local History web site [http://norwich.britishlocalhistory.com] [accessed 11 January 2009] notes: "A medieval stone font stands in St Luke's Chapel at the eastern end of the cathedral. This belonged to the lost church of St Mary-in-the-Marsh, which once, stood inside the close." [NB: the fabric of the old building goes back to Norman times, but we have no information on the earlier font of that church

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.631944, 1.301111

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 37′ 55″ N, 1° 18′ 4″ E

UTM: 31U 385024 5832684

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood?,

Apparatus: no

REFERENCES

Norwich Cathedral (a Pitkin cathedral guide), Andover, Hants.: Pitkin Pictorials, 1990

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

Britton, John, Cathedral antiquities of England, London: Printed for and published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster Row, 1814-1835

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

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

James, M. R., Suffolk and Norfolk, London, Toronto: Dent & Sons, 1930

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 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