Great Snoring / Snaringa / Snoring Magna

Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: forming the bases of the five columns; much worn now

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 27 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - east view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 27 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - south porch

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 27 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 27 March 1937 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/G/Gt Snoring St Mary's church south side [1526] 1937-03-27.jpg] [accessed 12 December 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - chancel - piscina

Scene Description: Photo caption: "14c piscina and sedilia south side of chancel, showing remains of canopy and groining"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 28 July 1950 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/G/Gt Snoring St Mary's church chancel piscina [3960] 1950-07-28.jpg] [accessed 12 December 2013]

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view of church interior - detail

Scene Description: Royal Arms, 1688

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 27 July 2000 by BSI

view of church interior - monument

Scene Description: Robert and Margaret West, 1610

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 27 July 2000 by BSI

view of church interior - south aisle - piscina

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Early 14c piscina and niche at SE angle of south aisle. Window recess sedilia"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 28 July 1950 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/G/Gt Snoring St Mary's church S aisle piscina [3962] 1950-07-28.jpg] [accessed 12 December 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of font

Scene Description: Photo caption: "13c Purbeck font"

Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken 28 July 1950 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/G/Gt Snoring St Mary's church font south side [3961] 1950-07-28.jpg] [accessed 12 December 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of font in context

Scene Description: Photo caption: "13c Purbeck font"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 28 July 1950 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/G/Gt Snoring St Mary's church font south side [3961] 1950-07-28.jpg] [accessed 12 December 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

INFORMATION

FontID: 01657SNO

Church/Chapel: Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: The Street, Great Snoring, Norfolk NR21 0AH, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 6-7 km ENE of Fakenham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of North Greehow

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

Century and Period: 13th century, Early English

Cognate Fonts: St. Germain's in Cornwall

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, taken in 1937 and 1950

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is entry for [Great] Snorin [variant spellin] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF9434/great-snoring/] [accessed 12 December 2013] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) notes "The Church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and is a rectory [...] William de Calthorp was rector about the reign of Edward I" [i.e., 1272-1307], and gives no reference to an earlier date for the church here. Cox (1907) describes this font as a noteworthy example of Early English font of Purbeck marble. Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a square basin mounted on a central shaft and four outer colonnettes of the Norman period. Noted in Pevsner & Wislon (1997): "Of greyish Purbeck marble. Square, with tapering sides, on five supports. C13 (?)". Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble: "bowl plain and cracked" [source given: H. Munro Cautley, Norfolk Churches, 1949]. [On-site notes: square basin mounted on a broad cylindrical column with four corner shafts, and a moulded lower base, all original; the upper volume of the plinth appears modern, whereas the lower volume may be original or at least earlier than the upper. The sides of the basin taper in towards the bottom and are totally plain, much weathered unless they were re-cut or re-tooled].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.87313, 0.889887

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 52′ 23.27″ N, 0° 53′ 23.59″ E

UTM: 31U 357983 5860243

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: not lined

Rim Thickness: 7 cm* (23 cm* at the corners)

Diameter (inside rim): 63 cm*

Basin Depth: 25 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 30 cm*

Basin Total Height: 35 cm*

Height of Base: 47 cm*

Height of Central Column: 33 cm*

Height of Side Columns: 33 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 81 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): 110 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 78 x 78 cm*

Notes on Measurements: *BSI on-site

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: 2009-06-23 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