Shipdham No. 2
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
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Results: 4 records
B01: symbol - shield - in a foil
Scene Description: some in quatrefoils, etc
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2007 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/shipdham/shipdham.htm] [accessed 25 August 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B02: design element - motifs - tracery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2007 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/shipdham/shipdham.htm] [accessed 25 August 2009]
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UB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2007 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/shipdham/shipdham.htm] [accessed 25 August 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2007 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/shipdham/shipdham.htm] [accessed 25 August 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 03218SHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: High Street, Shipdham, Norfolk, IP25 7LX
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 8 km SW of East Dereham, 32 kms E of Norwich.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred and half of Mitford
Font Notes:
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This second font at Shipham All Saints' is described by Pevsner & Wilson (1999) as being a Perpendicular font with "shields in foiled fields" and its cover as "17th century, volute type, six of the vanes with carved scrolls." Also listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) and described a s a font with panels of varied design. Noted and illustrated in Knott (2007) [NB: this church also houses an earlier, Norman, baptismal font [cf. Index entry for Shipdham No. 2]]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 357365 5833067
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.628827, 0.892524
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 37′ 43.78″ N, 0° 53′ 33.08″ 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 (Pevsner+)
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999, p. 646
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 104