Strumpshaw No. 2 / Stromessaga / Strumpsawe / Strumsawe

Results: 9 records

angel - cherub - head - 8

animal - mammal - lion - sejant - 4

design element - motifs - floral - Tudor rose - 4

symbol - shield - blank - 4

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01721STR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Norwich Road, Strumpshaw, Norfolk, NR13 4NR
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A47, E of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Norwich]
Historical Region: Hundred of Blofield
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
Listed in Cox-Harvey (1907) as a stone baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Octagonal, C15. Four lions against the stem, four roses and four shields against the bowl." The angles of the underbowl have angel heads; the font is raised on a plain octagonal plinth. The wooden cover is an octagonal pyramid with crocketed arrises and a dove finial; either 17th-century or Victorian. [NB: this source further reports "a reused piece of a C13 font of Purbeck marble" now embeded at the foot of the banner staff locker, east of the north doorway [cf. Index entry for Strumpshaw No. 1]]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.616133, 1.468678
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 36′ 58.08″ N, 1° 28′ 7.24″ E
UTM: 31U 396327 5830671

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-century? / 19th-century?
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997