Stody / Estodeia / Stodeia / Stodeye
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph December 2007 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/stody/stody.htm] [accessed 29 January 2014]
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 16
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph December 2007 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/stody/stody.htm] [accessed 29 January 2014]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Photo caption: ""The round tower is probably Norman, but it has stratified masonry and may be earlier. In the 15c it was heightened but they retained the circular shape which is slightly unusual"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 2 June 1960 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Stody St Mary's church from SW [4549] 1960-06-02.jpg] [accessed 29 January 2014]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 2 June 1960 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Stody St Mary's church from SE [4548] 1960-06-02.jpg] [accessed 29 January 2014]
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph December 2007 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/stody/stody.htm] [accessed 29 January 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the old font at the west end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph December 2007 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/stody/stody.htm] [accessed 29 January 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 2 June 1960 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Stody St Mary's church from SW [4549] 1960-06-02.jpg] [accessed 29 January 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01652STO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Transitional / Early English
Cognate Fonts: The fonts at Laxham and Letheringsett are of similar design. Also fonts at Beccles, Denham and many others all over England.
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Brinton Road, Stody, Norfolk NR24 2ED, UK
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just E of the B1110, about 15 km ENE of Fakenham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Holt
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Stody [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG0535/stody/] [accessed 29 January 2014], neither of which mentions a church or cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church of Stodey is a rectory dedicated to St. Mary [...] Peter le Povere, rector in the 51st of Henry III" [i.e., 1267]. If the present font is the original, the church would probably have existed here in the early part of the 13th century [or earlier if the tower were Norman or earlier]. The present font is described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as Norman, a basin of Purbeck marble supported on low pillars, like those at Laxham and Letheringsett. Tyrrell-Green (1928), however, writes: "The octagonal form persisted in fonts of the same class in the thirteenth century, with the change that in the Early English style pointed arches take the place of rounded ones in the shallow incised arcading", and lists this font as one. Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble. Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997) as "C13, octagonal, of Purbeck marble". Noted and illustrated in Knott (2007). The font is raised on a plain and tall octagonal lower base, and on a plain octagonal plinth. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat; appears modern. The shallow arches around the basin sides appear mostly round, but at least one arch shows a crude attempt at a trefoiled head, which would suggest a date for the font at the very end of the Transitional, or in the Early English period.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 369002 5860036
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.874067, 1.053586
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 52′ 26.64″ N, 1° 3′ 12.91″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 9: 438-442 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78588] [accessed 29 January 2014]
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 209, 210
- Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
- Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975, p. 78
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 677
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 29