Belaugh / Belugh nr. Coltishall / Belaga / Belagh / Belaw / Belehaw / Belihagh / Below / Bilhagh / Bilough

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 4

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott 2005 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/belaugh/belaugh.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: on the capitals and bases of the outer colonnettes

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Scene Description: Photo caption: "15c tower"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 26 March 1974 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Belaugh St Peter's church tower and S porch [5365] 1974-03-26.jpg] [accesssed 11 June 2014]

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Image Source: digital image of a engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged)

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Image Source: digital image of a engraving by J. Basire in Repton (1812)

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Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott 2005 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/belaugh/belaugh.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 Februay 2008 by Bill Sibley [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/702471] [accessed 26 December 2008]

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view of font and cover - east side

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view of font and cover - southeast side

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01656BEL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Church Lane, Belaugh, Norfolk, NR12 8UY

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off the B1354, SE of Coltishall, 14 km NNE of Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of South Erpingham

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?

Cognate Fonts: Other such fonts at Eaton Bray, Leighton Buzzard and Holwell, in Bedfordshire

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches, for his photographs of church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Blomefield (1805-1810) reports here a church dedicated to St. Peter, and a "Peter" is listed as the first recorded rector, in 1330. Illustrated with an engraving by J. Basire in Repton (1812), who writes that this font was "probably executed from about the reign of King John [1199+] or Henry the Third" [1216+]. Described in Bond (1908) as one of several "cup" fonts, with a round, convex bowl supported by a stout central pedestal and four outer shafts; he dates it to the Transitional period [i.e., 1150-1200]. Paley (1844) dates it to the same period and relates it to the later (Early English style) font at Leighton Buzzard, in Bedfordshire. Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928). Bell (1927) lists an 1840 water-colour drawing of this font by Miles Edmund Cotman in the Bulwer Collection. Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Of cauldron shape, Norman. The bowl rests on a thick centre shaft and four slightly projecting columns which carry raw blank arches against the sides of the cauldron." Illustrated in Knott (2005). Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008): "The font situated at the W end of the nave constitutes the only Romanesque carving in the building. [...] This consists of a circular, cauldron-shaped basin on a large cylindrical support with a chamfered base from which project the smaller hollow-chamfered bases, each with a torus, of four free-standing angle colonnettes. Each colonnette is surmounted by a plain bell capital. The capitals, which are integral with the bowl of the font, have necking and an impost composed of a thin plain upright with a roll above. From these spring four arches in low relief, one on each ‘face’ of the basin, curving to follow the shape of the bowl. Of shelly blue/grey (?) limestone." The CRSBI (ibid.) mentions other cauldron-shaped fonts at Spixworth (Nrflk.) and Leiston (Sfflk.).

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.716381, 1.385993

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 42′ 58.97″ N, 1° 23′ 9.58″ E

UTM: 31U 390979 5841943

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

Diameter (includes rim): 74 cm*

Basin Total Height: 37 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 86 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2014)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: round and flat, with decorated outer rim and centre; modern

REFERENCES

Bell, C.F., Miles Edmund Cotman (1810-1858): with a catalogue of fifty drawings by him, selected from the Bulwer Collection, London: Walker's Galleries, [1927?]

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810

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

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2013-05-23 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2007-04-05 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997

Repton, John Adey, "Specimens of Fonts, collected from different Churches, by John Adey Repton, Esq. F.A.S. In a Letter addressed to Craven Ord, Esq. F.R.S. and F.A.S.V.P., read 12th March, 1807", XVI, Archaeologia, 1812, pp. 335-337 and pl. XXXVII-XLV; r["References"]

Thomas, Caddy, Sketches for an ecclesiology of the deaneries of Sparham and Taverham, in Norfolk; together with some summary details of Ingworth Deanery, in the same county, Norwich; London: Jarrold and Sons; Hamilton Adams and Co., 1846

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928