Shereford / Sciraforda

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: forming the capitals and bases of the columns of the base

Image Source: detail of a digital phtograph by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/shereford/shereford.htm]

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design element - patterns - scalloped

Scene Description: only some of the original pattern remains, around the lower side of the basin, in two rows

Image Source: detail of a digital phtograph by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/shereford/shereford.htm]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 May 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1549943] [accessed 30 July 2013]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 March 2010 by Adrian S Pye [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2280934] [accessed 30 July 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 April 2006 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/320410] [accessed 30 July 2013]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital phtograph by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/shereford/shereford.htm]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital phtograph by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/shereford/shereford.htm]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: at the northwest corner of the nave

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 28 July 1950 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Shereford St Nicholas' church Norman font [3948] 1950-07-28.jpg] [accessed 18 October 2015]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

INFORMATION

FontID: 01680SHE

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: Shereford, Dunton, Norfolk NR21 7PP

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 3 km W of Fakenham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundreds of Gallow and Brothercross

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, N side

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [composite?], Medieval [composite]

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this font. We are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this font, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in July 1950

Church Notes: round-tower church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Shereford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TF8829/shereford/] [accessed 18 October 2015]; it mentions a church and "0.1 church lands" in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) notes "The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas" and names "Thomas Gosdespais" as first recorded rector, "presented by the prior and convent of Lewes", in 1302. The present font is noted in Tyrrell-Green (1928) in the context of a long list of square Norman basins with scalloped lower ends: "In some cases a round bowl is similarly scalloped, as at Jordanston (Pem.) and Shereford (Norfolk), in which latter example there is a double row of scallops." Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999) as Norman. Illustrated in Knott (2006). Baptismal font consisting of a roughly cylindrical basin, plain but for a scalloped lower side, raised on a cluster of colums and a square lower base; polygonal plinth, appears to have been reduced from its original size at the back; the base and the basin were not a pair originally; the base is meant to support a quadrangular basin of a much wider girth than the narrow circle on which the basin underbowl ends; such a basin would have had a round pedestal base most likely; the basin itself has been re-tooled, savagely so, and has lost the rest of its surface pattern. Flat and plain wooden cover with thin Latin cross finial; modern. [NB: it is possible that basin and base may be a century appart in date, the base later]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.829974, 0.799571

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 49′ 47.9″ N, 0° 47′ 58.46″ E

UTM: 31U 351759 5855626

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

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

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2006-07-26 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999

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