Bradfield / Bradfield nr. Trunch

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design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases - 8

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bradfield/bradfield.htm] [accessed 23 April 2014]

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design element - architectural - tracery - window tracery

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bradfield/bradfield.htm] [accessed 23 April 2014]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bradfield/bradfield.htm] [accessed 23 April 2014]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Tower 15c. 14c pentagonal pinnacled buttresses at east end"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 30 October 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Bradfield St Giles' church from SE [5888] 1977-10-30.jpg] [accessed 23 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - chancel arch - painting

Scene Description: on the west side

Image Source: digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bradfield/bradfield.htm] [accessed 23 April 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: notice the mural painting on the upper west side of the chancel arche

Image Source: digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bradfield/bradfield.htm] [accessed 23 April 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font is visible at the west end

Image Source: digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bradfield/bradfield.htm] [accessed 23 April 2014]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph August 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bradfield/bradfield.htm] [accessed 23 April 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01695BRA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Giles

Church Patron Saints: St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]

Church Location: Church Road., Bradfield, Norfolk, NR28 0NX

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off the A149, near Trunch, 5-6 km NW of North Walsham, 35 km from Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Tunstede

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

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?

Cognate Fonts: Lindfield, Penhurst, Pitminster and Carfax Church, Oxford

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church and font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in October 1977

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

We found no entry for Bradfield in the Domesday survey. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "This town does not occur in the Book of Domesday, being part of the manor of Trunch, or Gymingham, belonging to William Earl Warren, and therein accounted for. [...] The Church had two medieties, or portions; one belonged to the priory of Coxford valued at 5 marks; there were 16s. rent here belonging to 10l. per ann. given to Bury by King Richard I. The abbot, &c. of Bury had the other mediety, valued at 5 marks; and a manse, with 2 acres of land belonged to it in Edward the First's time;—Peter pence 9d. and the church was dedicated to St. Giles, and is a rectory". The above gives us a date for the documented existence of a church here between 1189 and 1199. Noted in Paley (1844) as one of the few specimens of square font of the Perpendicular period. Lewis's Dictionary of 1848 reports: "the font is handsomely sculptured." Described by Cox (1907) as a noteworthy example of the Decorated period. Bond (1908) mentions it as one of a group of "unmounted fonts of the fifteenth century". Noted in Persner & Wilson (1997): "Late C14. Octagonal stem with eight attached shafts. Bowl with alternating panels of two ogee arches and of a four-petalled tracery form." [NB: we have no information on the font of the late-12th-century church here]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.84976, 1.36681

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 50′ 59.14″ N, 1° 22′ 0.52″ E

UTM: 31U 390020 5856807

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

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

REFERENCES

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

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

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

Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831

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