Swanton Novers / Suanetuna / Swanton Nowers

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Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005

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Results: 15 records

B01: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew - symbol - angel - with scroll

on the east side of the basin [orientation is approximate]
Scene Description: on the east side of the basin [orientation is approximate]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph November 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/swantonnovers/swantonnovers.htm] [accessed 29 January 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B02: symbol - shield - emblem - the instruments of the Passion - crown of thorns - letter W inscribed

on the northeast side of the basin [orientation is approximate]
Scene Description: on the northeast side of the basin [orientation is approximate]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph November 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/swantonnovers/swantonnovers.htm] [accessed 29 January 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B03: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Luke?

the north side of the basin [orientation is approximate]
Scene Description: the north side of the basin [orientation is approximate]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph November 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/swantonnovers/swantonnovers.htm] [accessed 29 January 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B04: symbol - shield - emblem - the instruments of the Passion - crown of thorns - letter W inscribed

on the northwest side of the basin [orientation is approximate]
Scene Description: on the northwest side of the basin [orientation is approximate]

B05: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark?

on the west side of the basin [orientation is approximate]
Scene Description: on the west side of the basin [orientation is approximate]

B06: symbol - shield - emblem - the instruments of the Passion - crown of thorns - letter W inscribed

on the southwest side of the basin [orientation is approximate]
Scene Description: on the southwest side of the basin [orientation is approximate]

B07: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John?

on the south side of the basin [orientation is approximate]
Scene Description: on the south side of the basin [orientation is approximate]

B08: symbol - shield - emblem - the instruments of the Passion - crown of thorns - letter W inscribed

on the southeast of the basin [orientation is approximate]
Scene Description: on the southeast of the basin [orientation is approximate]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph November 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/swantonnovers/swantonnovers.htm] [accessed 29 January 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

angel - cherub - head - 8

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph November 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/swantonnovers/swantonnovers.htm] [accessed 29 January 2014]
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design element - motifs - unidentified

a row of [ball?]
Scene Description: a row of [ball?]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph November 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/swantonnovers/swantonnovers.htm] [accessed 29 January 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - northeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph November 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/swantonnovers/swantonnovers.htm] [accessed 29 January 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - southeast view

Photo caption: ""The unbuttressed tower rebuilt in 1960-61 evidently with old materials"
Scene Description: Photo caption: ""The unbuttressed tower rebuilt in 1960-61 evidently with old materials"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 22 May 1994 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Swanton Novers St Edmund's church S side [7126] 1994-05-22.jpg] [accessed 29 January 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking west

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph November 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/swantonnovers/swantonnovers.htm] [accessed 29 January 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph November 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/swantonnovers/swantonnovers.htm] [accessed 29 January 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 01720SWA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Edmund
Church Patron Saints: St. Edmund the Martyr [aka Edmund of East Anglia]
Church Location: Swanton Novers, Norfolk NR24 2RF
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 10 km SSW of Holt
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Holt [formerly in the Hundred of Depwade]
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 Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [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, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1994
Font Notes:
Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Edmund the King and Martyr", and names "William Davy instituted, presented by Sir Robert de Noers" as first recorded rector, in 1327. The present font is noted in White's Directory of 1883: "The font is an interesting octagonal one, bearing the evangelistic symbols". Listed in Cox-Harvey (1907) as a stone baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997) as a font decorated with the symbols of the four Evangelists as well as the letter W "surrounded by crowns of thorn". [NB: the plain stem may have had some ornamentation removed, as the top of the lower base has shelf-like protrusions that may have linked with buttresses of other decoration]. The octagonal plinth appears modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.851184, 0.991668
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 51′ 4.26″ N, 0° 59′ 30.01″ E
UTM: 31U 364765 5857606

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: initials
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: inscribed in the crown of thorns on at least one of the sides of the basin
Inscription Text: "W"

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
Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-07-07 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997
White, William, History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk, [s.l.]: [printed for the author], 1883