Yaxham / Iachesham
Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
Results: 16 records
design element - architectural - pinnacle - 8
Scene Description: over the cinquefoil windows that adorn the lower basin sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken 31 May 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/Y/Yaxham St Peter's church 14c font S side [5527] 1976-05-31.jpg] [accessed 31 March 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
design element - architectural - window - cinquefoiled - 8
Scene Description: one at each side of the lower basin sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken 31 May 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/Y/Yaxham St Peter's church 14c font S side [5527] 1976-05-31.jpg] [accessed 31 March 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
design element - architectural - window - quatrefoiled - 16
Scene Description: two on each side of the plinth
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken 31 May 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/Y/Yaxham St Peter's church 14c font S side [5527] 1976-05-31.jpg] [accessed 31 March 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
design element - motifs - floral - square flower - 16
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken 31 May 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/Y/Yaxham St Peter's church 14c font S side [5527] 1976-05-31.jpg] [accessed 31 March 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograh taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/yaxham/yaxham.htm] [accessed 9 September 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Photo caption: "The chancel is early 14c"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 27 March 1937 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/Y/Yaxham St Peter's church from SE [1537] 1937-03-27.jpg] [accessed 31 March 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - southwest end
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Base of tower is pre-conquest"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 27 March 1937 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/Y/Yaxham St Peter's church tower and porch [1536] 1937-03-27.jpg] [accessed 31 March 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font and cover by the tower arch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograh taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/yaxham/yaxham.htm] [accessed 9 September 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: Tyrrell-Green (1928: fig. 79)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cautley, 1949
Image Source: B&W photograph in Cautley (1949: 131)
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the publisher
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: B&W photograph in Bond (1908)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GoAntiques, 2009
Image Source: engraving in Corman [1817?] [www.goantiques.com/detail,font-yaxham-church,1814033.html] [accessed 13 September 2009
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of font - south side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 31 May 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/Y/Yaxham St Peter's church 14c font S side [5527] 1976-05-31.jpg] [accessed 31 March 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of font - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograh taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/yaxham/yaxham.htm] [accessed 9 September 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograh taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/yaxham/yaxham.htm] [accessed 9 September 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograh taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/yaxham/yaxham.htm] [accessed 9 September 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 01723YAX
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Church Lane, Yaxham, Norfolk, NR19 1QZ
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 4-5 km S of East-Dereham, 25-30 km WWN of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred and half of Mitford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: the font at Cromer, also in Norfolk
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of church and font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1937 and 1976
Church Notes: round-tower church
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Yaxham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG0010/yaxham/] [accessed 31 March 2014] but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church of Yaxham is dedicated to St. Peter [...] The Church has a nave, north and south isle, covered with lead, and a chancel tiled; at the west end of the nave is a round tower, with 5 bells. [...] In the first year of King John, William Earl Warren, granted by fine, the advowson to Ralph de Curzun." The above would put the date of the church here between 1086 and 1199. The present font is described in Cotman (1838) as an ornate, highly gothic baptismal font [NB: an engraving of this font by Cotman, date 1817 in the source, appeared for sale on GoAntiques [www.goantiques.com/detail,font-yaxham-church,1814033.html] [accessed 13 September 2009]]. Described and illustrated in Bond (1908): Yaxham and its sister font, Cromer, are fine examples of octagonal 15th-cent. fonts with delicate carving, even canopied over the pedestal; the pedestal has tiers of floral ornament and a narrow base; the substantial plinth is tall and has pairs of quatrefoils inscribed in circles on the sides. Illustrated in Tyrrell-Green (1928). Described and illustrated in Cautley (1949) as "the loveliest example" of 14th-century font "which has been copied at Cromer". Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999). Noted and illustrated in Knott (2006). The lower end of the basin angle buttresses ends in a shield carved at an angle that is almost horizontal, parallel with the ground. [NB: we have no information on the font of the 12th-century (?) church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.65714, 0.965823
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 39′ 25.7″ N, 0° 57′ 56.96″ E
UTM: 31U 362414 5836073
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal base with four raised ribs converging at the top; modern
REFERENCES
Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949
Cotman, John Sell, Specimens of Architectural Remains in Various Counties in England, but principally in Norfolk, London: H.G. Bohn, 1838
Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-09-09 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928