Sheringham All Saints / Sherringham / Silingeham / Upper Sheringham

Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: forming the bases of the colonnettes of the base

Image Source: digital photograph July 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/uppersheringham/uppersheringham.htm] [accessed 8 March 2007]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: forming the capitals of the colonnettes of the base

Image Source: digital photograph July 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/uppersheringham/uppersheringham.htm] [accessed 8 March 2007]

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design element - patterns - tracery

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph July 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/uppersheringham/uppersheringham.htm] [accessed 8 March 2007]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Tower dates from c1300"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 24 September 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/U/Upper Sheringham All Saints church from SE [7255] 1995-09-24.jpg] [accessed 25 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - bench-end

Scene Description: Photo caption: "15c. Cat with kitten in its mouth"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 25 July 1950 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/U/Upper Sheringham All Saints nave bench end [3920] 1950-07-25.jpg] [accessed 25 September 2013]

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view of church interior - bench-end - detail

Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken 25 July 1950 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/U/Upper Sheringham All Saints nave bench end [3920] 1950-07-25.jpg] [accessed 25 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

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

Scene Description: Photo caption: "15c rood screen and original rood beam"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 25 July 1950 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/U/Upper Sheringham All Saints rood screen [3919] 1950-07-25.jpg] [accessed 25 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: notice the old beam at the west end

Image Source: digital photograph July 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/uppersheringham/uppersheringham.htm] [accessed 8 March 2007]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Braced tiebeam for a pulley to hoist one-time font-cover" -- photo taken through the fine chancel screen

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 25 July 1950 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/U/Upper Sheringham All Saints church int west [3921] 1950-07-25.jpg] [accessed 25 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph July 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/uppersheringham/uppersheringham.htm] [accessed 8 March 2007]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the nave: looking east towards the chancel

Image Source: digital photograph July 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/uppersheringham/uppersheringham.htm] [accessed 8 March 2007]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Photo caption: "14c font with traceried bowl"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 24 September 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/U/Upper Sheringham All Saints church font N [7256] 1995-09-24.jpg] [accessed 25 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

INFORMATION

FontID: 01706SHE

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Limekiln Lane, Upper Sheringham, Norfolk NR26 8UA

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located on the A149, 5-6 km W of Cromer

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich [formerly in the D. of Ely]

Historical Region: Hundred of North Erpingham

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

Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this church and font.; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church and font taken by his father, George Plunkett, between 1950 and 1995

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The Domesday entry for "Silingeham', transcribed and translated in Blomefield (1805-1810) reports "a church endowed with 15 acres valued at 3s." This same author informs that the village had been held before the Conquest by Seiar Bar, but "was granted by King William I. to William de Scohies, or Escois, a Norman lord, who held it at the survey". "The Church was a rectory dedicated to All-Saints; it had a manse and 16 acres of land valued at 27 marks, and was appropriated to the abbey of Nutley, in Buckinghamshire, by Walter Giffard Earl of Bucks, lord of the town, and founder of that abbey, and paid Peterpence, 12d. it was served by a canon of Nutley or some stipendiary curate, and so continues to be a curacy at this time. The church is a regular pile, having a nave, 2 isles, and a chancel covered with lead. [...] The rectory is now in the see of Ely." [NB: the abbey of Notley, an Augustinian abbey founded in 1162 and located in the parish of Long Crendon, Bucks.] Andre (1889) writes: " At Sherringham the font, placed as usual in Norfolk in the central passage of the nave, has over it a tie beam entering into the construction of the roof and furnished with wall pieces and curved braces, all having been elaborately polychromed, and evidently intended to support the chain connected with the canopy of the font under it." Cox & Harvey (1907) note a Decorated font in this church. Bond (1908) mentions that "the painted beam for the suspension of the cover" still remains at Sheringham. Ditto in Howard & Crossley (1919). Tyrrell-Green (1928) notes a group of fonts in which "the geometrical or curved tracery occurs, not exactly in the same form as in the windows of the style, but adapted so as to fill square panels upon the sides of an octagonal font. The fashion is most common in Norfolk, in which county there are proportionately a greater number of fonts of this period than elsewhere. Excellent examples occur at Bintry [...], Deopham, Hilborough, Oxborough, Rockland All Saints', Sheringham, and Thompson--all in Norfolk. Other good specimens of the same kind of treatment are at Barton Mills (Suffolk), Kingsworthy (Hants), and Strubby (Lincs)." Pevsner & Wilson (1997) write: "Octagonal, Dec[orated] bowl with divers tracery patterns, the stem with tiling on the plinth.- The support for the former font cover is a beam on arched braces across the nave. Traceried spandrels." Described and illustrated in Knott (2006)

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.931563, 1.1892

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 55′ 53.63″ N, 1° 11′ 21.12″ E

UTM: 31U 378290 5866192

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, oak

Apparatus: [cf. FontNotes]

Notes: the modern cover is octagonal and flat, with a metal cross finial; the old cover, of which we have no information, used one of the 15th-century beams for support [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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

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

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

Howard, F.E., English Church Woodwork: a Study in Craftmanship during the Mediaeval period A.D. 1250-1550, London: B.T. Batsford, 1919

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2007-03-08 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

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