Needham nr. Diss
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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
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
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]
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
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
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
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
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
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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
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 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 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
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
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01719NEE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font / Evangelists' font
Cognate Fonts: the font at Startson [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, N side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: round-tower church
Church Address: High Road, Needham, Norfolk IP20 9LB
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 2 km WSW of Harleston, 13 km E of Diss
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Norman church here)
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.
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
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 382763 5805853
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.390362, 1.277171
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 23′ 25.3″ N, 1° 16′ 37.82″ E
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, p. 210
- Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999, p. 557