Strumpshaw No. 2 / Stromessaga / Strumpsawe / Strumsawe
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symbol - shield - blank - 4
design element - motifs - floral - Tudor rose - 4
angel - cherub - head - 8
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animal - mammal - lion - sejant - 4
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01721STR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font / heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Norwich Road, Strumpshaw, Norfolk, NR13 4NR
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A47, E of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Norwich]
Historical Region: Hundred of Blofield
Additional Comments: not in Knott yet (july 2009)
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 31U 396327 5830671
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.616133, 1.468678
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 36′ 58.08″ N, 1° 28′ 7.24″ E
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, p. 210
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 681