Saham Toney / Saham / Saham Tony

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animal - bird - pelican - plucking its breast

Scene Description: the font cover finial

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 October 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2114726] [accessed 14 March 2013]

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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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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - in a quatrefoil - 4

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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symbol - shield - blank - 8

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symbol - shield - blank - in a cusped panel - 4

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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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

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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view of font and cover

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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view of font cover

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

FontID: 01231SAH

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. George

Church Patron Saints: St. George

Church Location: 5 Richmond Road, Saham Toney, Norfolk IP25 7HT

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

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

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: ca. 1522?

Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.cu.uk, for his photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.58298, 0.80196

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 34′ 58.73″ N, 0° 48′ 7.06″ E

UTM: 31U 351081 5828151

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

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

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

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-08-20 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999