Stody / Estodeia / Stodeia / Stodeye

Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007

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Results: 7 records

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 - 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 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 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]

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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]

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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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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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INFORMATION

FontID: 01652STO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Brinton Road, Stody, Norfolk NR24 2ED, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
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 Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 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.
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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.874067, 1.053586
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 52′ 26.64″ N, 1° 3′ 12.91″ E
UTM: 31U 369002 5860036

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
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: 2009-07-06 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928