Ludham / Lodham

Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

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B01: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion - with scroll

Scene Description: on the north side of the basin

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

Scene Description: on the south side of the basin

Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken 22 September 1946 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/L/Ludham St Catherine's church font S side [3644] 1946-09-22.jpg] [accessed 15 January 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

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

Scene Description: on the east side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott in [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ludham/lugham.htm] [accessed 16 February 2007]

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B04: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Luke - symbol - winged bull - with scroll

Scene Description: on the west side of the basin

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ludham/lugham.htm] [accessed 16 February 2007]

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angel - holding book - 8

Scene Description: at each corner of the lower chamfer angles

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott in [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ludham/lugham.htm] [accessed 16 February 2007]

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animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant - 4

Scene Description: alternating with the woodwooses

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ludham/lugham.htm] [accessed 16 February 2007]

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animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant - 4

Scene Description: alternating with the symbols of the four Evangelists

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

design element - motifs - floral - Tudor rose

Scene Description: several

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ludham/lugham.htm] [accessed 16 February 2007]

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette

Scene Description: tiny rosettes, all around the upper rim

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ludham/lugham.htm] [accessed 16 February 2007]

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human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose - 4

Scene Description: Three male with one other which Jenkins (1999) identifies as a female of the "species" [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott in [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ludham/lugham.htm] [accessed 16 February 2007]

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human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose - female?

Scene Description: front view -- claimed to be a female carrying a baby woodwose [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2011 by mira66 [www.flickr.com/photos/21804434@N02/5319443081/] [accessed 21 January 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose - female?

Scene Description: side view -- claimed to be a female carrying a baby woodwose [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph 2005 by Nigel in The Norfolk Broads Forum [http://the-norfolk-broads.co.uk/fileattachments/m/mar05%20150.jpg] [accessed 21 January 2013]

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott in [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ludham/lugham.htm] [accessed 18 January 2014]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "14c tower, 15c porches"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 4 August 1969 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/L/Ludham St Catherine's church from NW [5269] 1969-08-04.jpg] [accessed 15 January 2014]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott in [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ludham/lugham.htm] [accessed 18 January 2014]

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view of church interior - Holy Rood

Scene Description: this reredos is painted as a tympanum of the chancel arch; seen from the west

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott in [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ludham/lugham.htm] [accessed 18 January 2014]

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view of church interior - chancel - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis

Scene Description: seen from the west

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott in [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ludham/lugham.htm] [accessed 18 January 2014]

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view of church interior - chancel - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis - north side

Scene Description: viewed from the west -- Photo caption: "John Salmon and Cycyly his wife gave 14 pounds towards making the screen. 1493"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 22 September 1946 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/L/Ludham St Catherine's church screen north [3642] 1946-09-22.jpg] [accessed 15 January 2014]

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view of church interior - chancel - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis - north side

Scene Description: seen from the west

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott in [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ludham/lugham.htm] [accessed 18 January 2014]

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view of church interior - chancel - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis - south side

Scene Description: seen from the west

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott in [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ludham/lugham.htm] [accessed 18 January 2014]

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view of church interior - chancel arch - east side - detail

Scene Description: on the reverse of the reredos

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott in [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ludham/lugham.htm] [accessed 18 January 2014]

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view of church interior - chancel arch - west side

Scene Description: seen from the west

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott in [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ludham/lugham.htm] [accessed 18 January 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Showing tympanic filling above rood beam. (Time of Elizabeth I)"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 22 September 1946 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/L/Ludham St Catherine's church interior east [3643] 1946-09-22.jpg] [accessed 15 January 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott in [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ludham/lugham.htm] [accessed 18 January 2014]

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view of font

Image Source: 1850 watercolour by Miles Edmund Cotman (1810-1858) advertised for sale at the Chris Beetles Ltd. Gallery, London, England [www.chrisbeetles.com/gallery/artist.php?art=1464] [accessed 9 March 2012]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (email of March 2012)

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott in [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ludham/lugham.htm] [accessed 16 February 2007]

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view of font and cover - south side

Scene Description: [orientation is approximate] -- Photo caption: "East Anglian type font with double corona"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 22 September 1946 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/L/Ludham St Catherine's church font S side [3644] 1946-09-22.jpg] [accessed 15 January 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01701LUD

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Catherine

Church Patron Saints: St. Catherine of Alexandria [aka Katherine, Katharine]

Church Location: Norwich Road, Ludham, Norfolk, NR29 5QA

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located WNW of Gt. Yarmouth up the A149, 21 km ENE of Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Happing

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

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

Cognate Fonts: Jenkins (1999) describes this font as "reminiscent" of the one at Happisburgh

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 photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1946 and 1969; we are also grateful to the Chris Beetles Gallery Ltd. St. James's, Lonton, for the image of Cotman's watercolour of this font. We are grateful to professor Lorraine Stock (University of Houston Texas, USA) and to Alex Cordiner, churchwarden at Ludham St. Catherine's, for sharing with BSI their interest in, and knowledge of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are five entries for this location in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG3818/ludham/] [accessed 15 January 2014], one of wich reports a church in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is dedicated to St. Catharine, and was a rectory, valued at 43 marks, and appropriated to the abbey of St. Bennet, by Pandulf Bishop of Norwich [1218-1226], on the 6th of the ides of June, in the 4th of Pope Honorius III [i.e., June 1220] and a vicarage was ordained valued at 8 marks. In the reign of Edward I. the vicar had a manse and 16 acres of land [...] Robert de Gloucester was presented to the rectory by King John, ao. 15 [i.e., 2014], in the vacancy of the abbey." Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports: "the font is elaborately sculptured". A 1850 watercolour of this font by Miles Edmund Cotman (1810-1858) is advertised for sale at the Chris Beetles Ltd. Gallery, London, England [http://www.chrisbeetles.com/gallery/artist.php?art=1464] [accessed 9 March 2012]. Andre (1889) writes: "at Ludham the woodhouses are male and female, the latter holding a little woodhouse in her arms." Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a Norfolk font similar in design to the other such fonts in Suffolk: Chediston, Hakesworth, Middleton, Theberton and Wissett, as well as to the one at Ludham, in Norfolk. Bell (1927) lists an 1840 water-colour drawing of this font by Miles Edmund Cotman in the Bulwer Collection. Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1997) with date in the 15th century. Described in Jenkins (1999) as an "Evangelist font" and reminiscent of the one in Happisburgh nearby; "beautifully carved stem of wildmen in skins and with clubs, one of whom appears to be a woman. Female examples are rare (see Clare in Suffolk), especially in this case where the woman is obviously the companion of the male." Described and illustrated in Hutton (1957) as an octagonal mounted font with the Evangelists' symbols on the basin sides; the angles of the chamfer are ornamented with grotesque beast heads, while the sides of the chamfer have Tudor (?) roses and other motifs; the lower level of the chamfer has several angels holdings books [an angel choir?]. The basin has the symbols of the four Evangelists alternating with four seated lions on the sides. The stem of the base has "hirsute male and female 'wodehouses' (wodewoses, or wild folk of the woods) on the pedestal." (Ibid.) Knott (2004) describes this as "one of the best East Anglian-style fonts". Alex Cordiner [cf. Credit section -- extract from e-mails to Lorraine Stock cc'd to BSI] writes: "I may have found the baby but sadly it does not appear to be wild. Just beside the wild women is a charming but very small figure of a woman standing underneath a canopy. The women is wearing medieval dress and is undoubtedly holding a baby. There are no other depictions of babies on the font. [...] There is one 'wildman' and one 'wildwomen. There are two seated lions. Between the lions and the 'Woodwoses' are four small stone carvings. One is the mother and baby another is a figure in clerical garb holding what appears to be a rosary then there is a gap where the figure has been destroyed and finally a figure in senior clerical dress possible representing the Abbot of St Benet's Abbey, the remains of which are a mile or so away from the church."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.70874, 1.532153

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 42′ 31.62″ N, 1° 31′ 55.75″ E

UTM: 31U 400834 5840887

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: A low-rise wooden lid painted and topped with a looped finial.

REFERENCES

André, J. Lewis, "Notes on Ritualistic Ecclesiology in North-East Norfolk", XLVI, Archaeological Journal, 1889, pp. 136-155; r["References"]

Bell, C.F., Miles Edmund Cotman (1810-1858): with a catalogue of fifty drawings by him, selected from the Bulwer Collection, London: Walker's Galleries, [1927?]

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

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

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

Jenkins, Simon, England's Thousand Best Churches, London and New York: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1999 [2000 rev. printing]

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2007-02-16 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

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

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