Blakeney / Blakeney nr. Holt / Esnuterle / Esnuterlea / Sniterley / Sniterly / Snitterley / Snuterlea

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B01: Old Testament - the book of Jonah - Jonah - with scroll or banderole - 4

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph [October 2004] by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/blakeney/blakeney.htm] [accessed 24 March 2009]

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B02: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - symbol - eagle - with scroll

Scene Description: on the right, St. John's eagle

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph [October 2004] by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/blakeney/blakeney.htm] [accessed 24 March 2009]

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B03: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew - symbol - angel - with scroll

Scene Description: in the left- side panel

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph [October 2004] by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/blakeney/blakeney.htm] [accessed 24 March 2009]

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B04: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion - with scroll

B05: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Luke - symbol - winged bull - with scroll

B06: design element - architectural - column - 8

Scene Description: at the angles of the basin

UB01: symbol - shield - emblem - the instruments of the Passion - cross, crown of thorns, hammer, ladder, lance, nails, sponge, etc.

Scene Description: one of three shields with the Instruments of the Passion

UB02: symbol - shield - emblem - the instruments of the Passion

Scene Description: Identified in Farrer (1887...) as: "In pale the pot of vinegar [?] suspended, over all a hatchet and spear in saltire, between on the dexter side the seamless coat [?] and on the sinister a club. Shield of the Passion" -- one of three shields with the Instruments of the Passion

UB03: symbol - shield - emblem - the instruments of the Passion - Five Wounds of Christ

Scene Description: Identified in Farrer (1887...): "A heart ; in chief two hands, and in base two feet (Shield of the Five Wounds, Argent, a wouded heart gules ; in chief two hands, and in base two feet, all couped proper and wounded gules" -- one of three shields with the Instruments of the Passion

UB04: symbol - shield - emblem - radiant Sun

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph [October 2004] by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/blakeney/blakeney.htm] [accessed 24 March 2009]

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angel - cherub - 8

Scene Description: at the angles of the underbowl, upper level

design element - motifs - floral - square flower - 8

Scene Description: on the sides of the underbowl, lower level

design element - motifs - moulding - graded

view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: the lantern tower at the east end

Image Source: digital photograph [October 2004] by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/blakeney/blakeney.htm] [accessed 24 March 2009]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 20 June 1948 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Blakeney St Nicholas' church north side [3690] 1948-06-20.jpg] [accessed 20 January 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southeast end

Scene Description: showing the lantern tower at the east end -- Photo caption: "And chancel from SE"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 20 June 1948 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Blakeney St Nicholas' church lantern tower [3691] 1948-06-20.jpg] [accessed 20 January 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - choir - stalls - detail

Scene Description: showing the bench-end carvings and heraldic misericords

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 20 June 1948 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Blakeney St Nicholas' church misericord [3694] 1948-06-20.jpg] [accessed 20 January 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: in the foreground the top of the font cover

Image Source: digital photograph [October 2004] by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/blakeney/blakeney.htm] [accessed 24 March 2009]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Photo caption: "View from font"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 20 June 1948 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Blakeney St Nicholas' church interior east [3693] 1948-06-20.jpg] [accessed 20 January 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

INFORMATION

FontID: 01664BLA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: Cley Rd., Blakeney NR25 7NW Norfolk. United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 8 km NW of Holt, 21 km W of Cromer, 34 km NW of Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Holt

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font / Evangelists' font / heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches, and to Colin Smith, for their photographs of church and font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, 20 June 1948

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Blakeney appears in three entries in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG0343/blakeney/] [accessed 20 January 2014] with one church in them. The Domesday entry transcribed and translated in Blomefield (1895-1810) shows the part held by "William de Beaufoe Bishop of Thetford" with "a church endowed with 30 acres". Blomefield (ibid.) writes: "The church is a rectory dedicated to St. Nicholas [...] The Church is very spacious, both in length and breadth, containing a nave, 2 isles, and a chancel, all built of stone, with a stately, large, and lofty four-square tower of stone, and is a famous sea-mark; the chancel roof is curiously vaulted with free-stone, and covered as the church, with lead; at the north-east corner of the chancel arises a lofty stone turret, wherein was formerly (as reported) a fire-beacon, or light-house"; the first rector named in this author: "Hamon Peche occurs rector in the 14th of Edward I" [i.e., 1286]. Farrer (1887 [1885?]) describes the shields on the font: "XI. A scourging pillar between on either side scourging whips. Shield of the Passion. -- XII. Cross, with crown of thorns ; in saltire, spear and reed with sponge ; in the dexter base three nails, and in the sinister base a ladder. Shield of the Passion. -- XIII. In pale the pot of vinegar [?] suspended, over all a hatchet and spear in saltire, between on the dexter side the seamless coat [?] and on the sinister a club. Shield of the Passion. -- XIV. A heart ; in chief two hands, and in base two feet (Shield of the Five Wounds, Argent, a wouded heart gules ; in chief two hands, and in base two feet, all couped proper and wounded gules. See vol. i., p. 148.)" Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a 15th-century baptismal font ornamented with symbols of the Passion on the basin panels. Hutton (1957) describes it as "a fine 15C P[erpendicular] font carved with figures of saints and emblems on the bowl." Cautley (1982) notes "on the front the ear of Malchus on the sword of Peter". Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Octagonal. Perp[endicular], with the signs of the Evangelists and four seated Prophets. Against the stem three shields with the Instruments of the Passion and one with a sun." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2004).

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.951111, 1.024722

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 57′ 4″ N, 1° 1′ 29″ E

UTM: 31U 367296 5868658

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle

REFERENCES

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

Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Farrer, Edmund, The Church Heraldry of Norfolk, a description of all coats of arms […] now to be found in the county […], Norwich: A.H. Goose and Co., 1885-1893

Hutton, Graham, English Parish Churches, London: Thames & Hudson, 1976

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