Saham Toney / Saham / Saham Tony
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view of font and cover
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symbol - shield - blank - in a cusped panel - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2007 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/sahamtoney/sahamtoney.htm] [accessed 20 August 2009]
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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - in a quatrefoil - 4
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font and cover at the back
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animal - bird - pelican - plucking its breast
Scene Description: the font cover finial
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view of font cover
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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8
Scene Description: the arch-heads start on the underbowl sides
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symbol - shield - blank - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 16 October 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2114754] [accessed 14 March 2013]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01231SAH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1522?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. George
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. George
Church Address: 5 Richmond Road, Saham Toney, Norfolk IP25 7HT
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 1-2 km NW of Watton, 24 km N of Thetford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Wayland
Additional Comments: price of a font: 40 shillings left in 1522 for a new font -- disappeared font? (the one from the late-13thC church here)
Font Notes:
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Blomefield (1805-1810) informs that "[Saham-Tony] Church is dedicated to St. George", the chantry of which "was founded by William de Saham, in 1281", and names "Theobald de Trecis, accolite, the Queen's physician" as the first recorded rector of it, in 1313. Blomefield (ibid.) mentions a font in this church: "The font hath an eagle on the top, and on the wood work this, 'Lavacrum Regenerationis. Johannes Ives nuper de Saham, Insigne hoc Pietatis ana Testimonium, Deo et Ecclesiæ suæ moriens legavit. Anno Domini 1632" [NB: the bird is actually a pelican in the traditional chect-plucking stance]. Blomefield (ibid.) cites two Domesday entries for 'Saham' (fol. 3, 127) but neither mentions a church or priest in it. Bond (1908) refers only to the font cover at this church dating it to the time of king Charles I; it had (?) a pelican as finial; it is provided with a lid that slides out, "beneath a dome-like canopy carried by four short columns fixed to a frame on the font rim". Bond (ibid.) gives the date of the cover as 1636. Cox & Harvey (1907) give the text of the inscription on the cover [cf. Inscription area] with the date 1631. Pevsner & Wilson (1999) write: "40s. left in 1522 for a new font, octagonal and quite plain, just shields in cusped fields and quatrefoils.- Font cover. Very handsome; with inscription and date 1632. Unfluted Ionic columns, an ogee cap, and on top a pelican (under tower)." The cover too is noted and illustrated in Knott (2007): "the magnificent Laudian font cover of the 1630s, domed and collonaded, with a pelican feeding its young on top. It must be one of the best of its kind in East Anglia." [NB: we have no information on the font from the original church here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.cu.uk, for his photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 351081 5828151
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.58298, 0.80196
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 34′ 58.73″ N, 0° 48′ 7.06″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Location: On the font cover
Inscription Text: 1) "Lavacrum Regenerationis. Johannes Ives nuper de Saham, Insigne hoc Pietatis ana Testimonium, Deo et Ecclesiæ suæ moriens legavit. Anno Domini 1632"
2) "Lavacrum Regenerationis Johannes Ives, nuper de Saham, insigne hoc pietatis suae testimonium Deo et ecclesiae suae moriens legavit. Anno Domini, 1631"
Inscription Source: Blomefield (1805-1810, vol. 2: 319-330) and Cox & Harvey (1907: 183)
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1632 [cf. FontNotes]
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no; rim-buffet type
Notes: A pelican atop, instead of the usual dove as a symbol of the Holy Ghost.
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 2: 319-330 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78074] [accessed 14 March 2013]
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 265, 285, 303
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 183
- Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999, p. 625