Colkirk / Colecherch / Colechirca / Colechurch / Colekirk / Colekirka

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Results: 8 records

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/colkirk/colkirk.htm] [accessed 3 April 2009]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 October 2008 by Janice Tostevin

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design element - architectural - column

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 11 October 2008 by Janice Tostevin

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: B&W photograp taken 22 July 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Colkirk St Mary Virgin church from SE [7228] 1995-07-22.jpg] [accessed 4 February 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/colkirk/colkirk.htm] [accessed 3 April 2009]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font at the back, in the left [southwest] corner of the nave

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/colkirk/colkirk.htm] [accessed 3 April 2009]

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view of base - lower base

Scene Description: probably an upturned Victorian base re-cycled as lower base of the earlier font [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 11 October 2008 by Janice Tostevin

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: forming the capitals and bases of the outer colonnettes of the base

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 11 October 2008 by Janice Tostevin

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 01672COL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [on a later lower base] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

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

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin

Church Address: Church Rd., Norfolk, NR21 7NP

Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located about 6 km S of Fakenham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Launditch [formerly in the Hundred of Brothercross]

Additional Comments: altered font? (the present one: the base appears to be an upturned font basin of the Victorian period / re-cycled font? / composite font -- req sent to Rector for info on lower base of font [email of 3 April 2009] //mt -- disappeared font? (the one from the original pre-1086 church here)

Font Notes: Click to view

There are two entries for Colkirk [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF9126/colkirk/] [accessed 4 February 2014]; they were in the Hundred of Brothercross [aka Brodercross]; the main entry reports a church in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) notes "a church endowed with 40 acres" in it at the survey, and adds: "The Church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and was a rectory [...] There was formerly a vicar under the rector, who was presented by the prior of Wayburne". Blomefield (ibid.) names "Thomas de Fraxino, alias Atte Ashe" as first recorded rector, in 1305, and "Edmund de Wharles instituted vicar, presented by the prior and convent of Waburn", in 1349. The present font here is listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a baptismal font of the Norman period, one with the classical division of circular bowl raised on a central support and four outer colonnettes, but, in this case, as Knott (2006) points out, "unusually placed on a tub-like pedestal with quatrefoil decoration", which could very well be the upturned basin of a later font re-cycled here to serve as lower base and height to the old font; this lower base looks Victorian. The combination of mouldings and colonnettes (?) that adorns the basin sides is also very uncommon. Pevsner & Wilson (1999), too, find the font odd and suggest "it is probably late C12".

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

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 354649 5852517

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.80284, 0.84382

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 48′ 10.22″ N, 0° 50′ 37.75″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat and round, with metal decoration; date unknown

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 9: 471-477 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78599] [accessed 4 February 2014]
Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999, p. 266
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 27