Warham All Saints No. 2 / Guarham / Quarham / Wareham All Saints
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view of font - east side
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 24 July 1998 by BSI
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view of font - southeast side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gearge Plunkett, 2015
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 6 September 1975 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Warham All Saints church Norman font SE [5457] 1975-09-06.jpg] [accessed 20 October 2015]
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view of font - northeast side
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 6 September 1975 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/W/Warham All Saints church Norman font NE [5458] 1975-09-06.jpg] [accessed 20 October 2015]
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view of font - south side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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view of font - southwest side
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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view of font - north side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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view of font - east side
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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symbol - tetragram - God's symbol
Scene Description: on the east side of the basin, in the centre
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 24 July 1998 by BSI
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 6
Scene Description: on the south side of the basin
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 16 September 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 6
Scene Description: on the west side of the basin
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 16 September 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches
Scene Description: on the north side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 16 September 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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symbol - plant or tree - Tree of life?
Scene Description: on the right of the east side, to the right of the tetragram
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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design element - motifs - vine
Scene Description: on the left of the east side; scrolling vine with at least one flower; to the left of the tetragram
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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view of basin - east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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view of base
Scene Description: the modern base
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 02085WAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 1998-07-24
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Box font
Cognate Fonts: Others of this type in England
Church / Chapel Name: Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, in the centre, just inside the N door
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: The Street, Warham, Norfolk NR23 1NH, United Kingdom
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 4 km SE of Wells-next-the-Sea, S of the A149, E of the B1105, just a few kms inland from the North Norfolk Heritage Coast, about 90 km WNW of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of North Greehow
Additional Comments: altered font: replacement base probably of the 19th century
Font Notes:
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The Domesday survey has seven entries for Warham [variant spellings] [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/XX0000/warham-all-saints-and-st-mary/] [accessed 12 December 2013] none of which mention a church or cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "Here were 3 churches— All-Saints—St. Mary's— and St. Mary Magdalen. [...] All Saints [...] is a rectory", and names "Richard de Aston" as first recorded rector, in 1312. This date is the earliest reference related to the date of this church in Blomefield (ibid.) Lewis' Directory of 1848 reports: "on the Chalk Farm is the ancient fonts of this [i.e., Warham All Saints'] church, which has remained there for centuries." [is this the font now in the church, or was Lewis's Directory referring to the octagonal [formerly square] old basin of the same period?]. This is probably the baptismal font listed in Cox-Harvey (1907) as Norman without further comment. It is not listed or referred to in Bond (1908), who does, however, mention the other baptismal font from this church [cf. Index entry for Warham All Saints No. 1]. Tyrrell-Green (1928) lists a Norman font decorated with an arcade "together with other forms of ornament upon the same bowl". Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997). Noted and illustrated in Knott (2005). Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble: "bowl with round headed panels on two faces and more elaborate ones on others [source given: The Revd. C.N. Lavender]. On-site notes: a slightly tapering square basin mounted on a modern [Victorian?] columnar base consisting of a broad central shaft and and four corner detached colonnettes; the latter have well-defined capitals and bases, whereas the central shaft is plain except for a roll moulding at top and bottom; there is an underbowl between that shows between the corner columns, and is ornamented with a large fluted pattern; again, all this area a modern replacement; the old basin has the symbol of god in the form of an interlace of a quatrefoil weaving through a circle on the east side, and to the left and right of it, two vertical bands, vine-like on the left, plant-like on the right; the north side has a blind arcade of intersecting arches; the west and south sides are practically identical, each side with a blind arcade of six round arches on it.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janice Tostevin for her additional photographs of this font. We are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this font, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in September 1975
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 358625 5867284
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.936549, 0.896345
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 56′ 11.57″ N, 0° 53′ 46.84″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage System: centre hole in basin & base
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Rim Thickness: 7 to 22 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 52 cm*
Basin Depth: 20 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 37 cm*
Basin Total Height: 37 cm* (does not include capitals of cols)
Height of Base: 62 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 98 cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): 113 cm*
Square Base Dimensions: 66 x 66 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 70 x 68 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on site
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 9: 261-266 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78540] [accessed 12 December 2013]
- 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.
- Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975, p. 74
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=51377] [accessed 14 March 2007]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 706
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 76