Needham nr. Diss
Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2015
Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
Results: 16 records
Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - symbol - eagle - with scroll
Scene Description: seen here in the right panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/needham/needham.htm] [accessed 12 August 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Luke - symbol - winged bull - with scroll
Scene Description: seen here in the left panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 14 May 1980 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/N/Needham St Peter's church font south sides [6096] 1980-05-14.jpg] [accessed 18 October 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion - with scroll
Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew - symbol - angel - with scroll
angel - cherub - head - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 14 May 1980 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/N/Needham St Peter's church font south sides [6096] 1980-05-14.jpg] [accessed 18 October 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
animal - mammal - lion - sejant - 4
Scene Description: the heads have been defaced
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 14 May 1980 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/N/Needham St Peter's church font south sides [6096] 1980-05-14.jpg] [accessed 18 October 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
design element - architectural - buttress - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 14 May 1980 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/N/Needham St Peter's church font south sides [6096] 1980-05-14.jpg] [accessed 18 October 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 14 May 1980 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/N/Needham St Peter's church font south sides [6096] 1980-05-14.jpg] [accessed 18 October 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
design element - motifs - floral - square flower
Scene Description: tiny ones on the frames of the basin panels
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 14 May 1980 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/N/Needham St Peter's church font south sides [6096] 1980-05-14.jpg] [accessed 18 October 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
design element - motifs - floral - square flower - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 14 May 1980 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/N/Needham St Peter's church font south sides [6096] 1980-05-14.jpg] [accessed 18 October 2015]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "The church of St Peter in Needham. Only the round tower remains of the original St Peter's church that stood here in Norman times, chancel and nave were built in the 15th century and the chancel was entirely rebuilt by William Freston in 1735".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taekn 23 March 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1771164] [accessed 18 October 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2008 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/804930] [accessed 18 October 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taekn 23 March 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1771172] [accessed 18 October 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font is partially visible at the far end, right side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taekn 23 March 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1771182] [accessed 18 October 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover - south side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/needham/needham.htm] [accessed 12 August 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover - south side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 14 May 1980 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/N/Needham St Peter's church font south sides [6096] 1980-05-14.jpg] [accessed 18 October 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
INFORMATION
FontID: 01719NEE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: High Road, Needham, Norfolk IP20 9LB
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 2 km WSW of Harleston, 13 km E of Diss
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, N side
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font / Evangelists' font
Cognate Fonts: the font at Startson [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font. We are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this font, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in May 1980
Church Notes: round-tower church
Font Notes:
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No entry found for Needham in the Domesday survey. Cox-Harvey (1907) list a stone baptismal font of the Perpendicular period here. Knott (2005) notes: "The 15th century font is the same as the one nearby at Starston, with lions supporting a bowl with shields and symbols." There are the four Evangelists' symbols on alternate side of the basin, the other four sides with very well executed Tudor roses; the heads of the Evangelists' symbols are defaced; the frames of both these and the Tudor roses are decorated in little square flowers. The underbowl chamfer has cherub heads at the angles and square flowers on the sides below; between the four damaged lions of the base are buttresses, as usual in this design; the plinth is octagonal and appears to be the original. The wooden font cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; probably 19th-century.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.390362, 1.277171
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 23′ 25.3″ N, 1° 16′ 37.82″ E
UTM: 31U 382763 5805853
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-08-12 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999