Postwick / Possuic [Domesday] / Poswick
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animal - head
Scene Description: at least one, at one of the angles of the underbowl; the other heads are human
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving [O. Jewitt?] in Paley (1844)
Copyright Instructions: PD
design element - architectural - arch or window - cinquefoiled - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 5 December 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1070184] [accessed 2 August 2013]
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design element - architectural - baluster or piping
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 5 December 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1070184] [accessed 2 August 2013]
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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 4 petals
Scene Description: One at each of the sides of the underbowl, between the heads
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving [O. Jewitt?] in Paley (1844)
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: a large one, resembling a four-leaf flower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 5 December 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1070184] [accessed 2 August 2013]
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil
Scene Description: a large one on every other side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 5 December 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1070184] [accessed 2 August 2013]
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human figure - head
Scene Description: Unknown number at some of the angles of the underbowl; the other/s are animal heads
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 5 December 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1070184] [accessed 2 August 2013]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 31 May 1985 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/P/Postwick All Saints church from SE [6325] 1985-05-31.jpg] [accessed 16 August 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 December 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1070159] [accessed 2 August 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 December 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1070169] [accessed 2 August 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font visible at the west end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 December 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1070183] [accessed 2 August 2013]
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view of font and cover
![ca. 1844? notice the cover [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0130816007_compressed.png)
Scene Description: ca. 1844? notice the cover [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving [O. Jewitt?] in Paley (1844)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of font and cover
Scene Description: at the west end of the nave, just east of the tower arch -- re-carved font? [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 December 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1070184] [accessed 2 August 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font cover
![ca. 1844 [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0130816009_compressed.png)
Scene Description: ca. 1844 [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving [O. Jewitt?] in Paley (1844)
Copyright Instructions: PD
INFORMATION
FontID: 01661POS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Church Road, Postwick, Norfolk, NR13 5HL
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 6-7 km NE of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Blofield
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1985
Font Notes:
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The Domesday entry for "Possuic" cited in Blomefield (1805-1810) shows this "had in King Edward's reign [i.e., 1042-1066] [...] a church endowed with 20 acres [...] The church of Poswick is dedicated to All-Saints, and was a rectory [...] The Church is a single pile, about 24 yards long, and 8 broad, with a four-square tower, and covered with lead, but the chancel is tiled.". Blomefield (ibid.) adds"Thomas Rowland occurs rector in 1295". The present font here is illustrated in Paley (1844) [NB: the illustration in Paley [is it O. Jewitt's?] shows the font with a wooden cover of Jacobean design, a flat octagonal platform with eight scroll ribs around a centre pivot; in this case, the upper scrolls of the ribs have been carved with avian(?) heads]. Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1997). Octagonal mounted font of the 14th century in the Decorated style; the basin sides are ornamented with large quatrefoils on every other side; the other sides have foliage motif ; the angles of the underbowl are ornamented with heads, some human, some animal, and the spaces in between have a four-leaf flower motif; the stem of the base is also octagonal and has an arcade of tall trefoil arches; the octagonal single-step plinth is plain. [NB: the font appears to have been re-carved or re-tooled -- or is it Victorian? -- we have no information on the font of the pre-Conquest church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.619431, 1.388991
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 37′ 9.95″ N, 1° 23′ 20.37″ E
UTM: 31U 390940 5831155
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 55 cm
Basin Depth: 30 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 110 cm
Notes on Measurements: Paley (1844)
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: the present font is octagonal and flat, with graded moulding on the sides; metal ring handle [cf. FontNotes for an earlier cover]
REFERENCES
Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810
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