Shipdham No. 2

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B01: symbol - shield - in a foil

Scene Description: some in quatrefoils, etc

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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B02: design element - motifs - tracery

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

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

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

FontID: 03218SHI

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: High Street, Shipdham, Norfolk, IP25 7LX

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

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 Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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]]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.628827, 0.892524

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 37′ 43.78″ N, 0° 53′ 33.08″ E

UTM: 31U 357365 5833067

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]. Accessed: 2009-08-25 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