Hemsby / Hemesbej [Domesday] / Hemesby
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B01: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - symbol - eagle
Scene Description: on the left panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Fairweather, 2004
Image Source: Peter Fairweather [wwww.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B02: symbol - shield - blank
Scene Description: in the centre panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Fairweather, 2004
Image Source: Peter Fairweather [wwww.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]
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B03: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew - symbol - angel
Scene Description: in the right panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Fairweather, 2004
Image Source: Peter Fairweather [wwww.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]
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B04: symbol - shield - blank
Scene Description: in the centre panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Fairweather, 2004
Image Source: Peter Fairweather [wwww.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]
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B05: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion
Scene Description: on the right panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Fairweather, 2004
Image Source: Peter Fairweather [wwww.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]
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B06: symbol - shield - blank
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 December 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2204809] [accessed 26 May 2014]
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B07: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Luke - symbol - winged bull
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 December 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2204809] [accessed 26 May 2014]
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B08: symbol - shield - blank
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 December 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2204809] [accessed 26 May 2014]
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animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant - 4
Scene Description: alternating with the four buttresses
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 December 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2204811] [accessed 26 May 2014]
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design element - architectural - buttress - canopied - 4
Scene Description: alternating with the four seated lions
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 December 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2204811] [accessed 26 May 2014]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Photo caption: "The tower and porch both 15c"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 19 May 1996 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Hemsby St Mary's church from SE [7316] 1996-05-19.jpg] [accessed 26 May 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Modern screen and benches"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 15 May 1932 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Hemsby St Mary's church interior view east [B280] 1932-05-15.jpg] [accessed 26 May 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font is visible at the west end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 December 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2204807] [accessed 26 May 2014]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 December 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2204809] [accessed 26 May 2014]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01714HEM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: The Street, Hemsby, Norfolk NR29 4EU
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located on the B1159, 10-11 km NW of Great Yarmouth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of West Flegg
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font / heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Peter Fairweather, of wwww.churchmousewebsite.co.uk, for the photographs of this font.
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Hemsby [variant spelling] in the Domesday surve [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG4917/hemsby/] [accessed 26 May 2014], and it reports a church a churchlands in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "At the survey William Beaufoe Bishop of Thetford, was lord by the grant of the Conqueror, and held it as a lay fee in demean, [...] with a church endowed with 20 acres [...] The Church was a rectory, dedicated to St. Mary, [...] and was appropriated to the priory of Norwich, and a vicarage was settled". Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 notes: "the font is curiously sculptured." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "C15, octagonal, against the stem lions and buttresses. Against the bowl shields and synbols of the four Evangelists." Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated alternatively with the symbols of the Evangelists and large blank shields, raised on an octagonal-to-square pedestal base with sedente lions alternating with buttresses at the angles; square lower base. Octagonal wooden cover with metal decoration, flat and modern. Plain octagonal plinth. [NB: we have no information on the font from the Domesday-time church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.696416, 1.690007
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 41′ 47.1″ N, 1° 41′ 24.02″ E
UTM: 31U 411473 5839305
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle
REFERENCES
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
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