Blickling / Blicklinga / Blicling / Blikelinga / Blikelinges / Blykelynga / Blyklyng
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view of font and cover - north side
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Andrew's church in Blickling - C15 baptismal font. The font is of typical East Anglian style, with lions carved into the panels of the bowl and four seated lions (obscured by the flower arrangement) grouped around the stem. The font cover looks Jacobean but is a Victorian copy."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 September 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2070263] [accessed 17 January 2021]
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view of font and cover - northeast side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julian P Guffogg, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 May 2019 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6190841] [accessed 17 January 2021]
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view of font and cover - east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 November 2019 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6318360] [accessed 17 January 2021]
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view of font and cover in context - east side
Scene Description: beneath the tower: the rope hanging by the side of the font is from the bells
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph [September 2005] by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/blickling/blickling.htm] [accessed 24 March 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover - southeast side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph by Craig Thornber, 2006 [www.thornber.net]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trustees of the British Museum, 2013
Image Source: digital image of a print from an etching made between 1827 and 1844 by Elizabeth Matilda Palgrave, now in the British Museum collections [ref.: 1902,0514.1023 -- PPA345810]
Copyright Instructions: Reproduced under the British Museum's terms of use
view of font and cover
Scene Description: showing a drawing of the earlier cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an engraving by J. Basire in Repton (1812)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an engraving by J. Basire in Repton (1812)
Copyright Instructions: PD
angel - cherub - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 November 2019 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6318364] [accessed 17 January 2021]
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animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 November 2019 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6318364] [accessed 17 January 2021]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julian P Guffogg, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 21 May 2019 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6188307] [accessed 17 January 2021]
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view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 May 2019 by J. Hannan [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6188317] [accessed 17 January 2021]
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view of church interior - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 May 2019 by J. Hannan [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6188314] [accessed 17 January 2021]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: at the back is the tower space with the font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph [September 2005] by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/blickling/blickling.htm] [accessed 24 March 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - floral and foliage
Scene Description: on the upper end of the stem
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julian P Guffogg, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 21 May 2019 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6190841] [accessed 17 January 2021]
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animal - mammal - lion - sejant - 4
Scene Description: on the sides of the base, alternating with crocketed buttreses
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julian P Guffogg, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 21 May 2019 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6190841] [accessed 17 January 2021]
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design element - architectural - buttress - crocketed pinnacle - 4
Scene Description: on the sides of the base, alternanting with sedente lions
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julian P Guffogg, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 21 May 2019 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6190841] [accessed 17 January 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5
INFORMATION
Font ID: 03468BLI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Cognate Fonts: Norwich No. 4
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, beneath the tower
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: Blickling Road (B1354), Blickling, Norfolk, NR11 6NG
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B1354, 4 km NW of Aylsham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of South Erpingham
Additional Comments: painted font -- disappeared font? (the one from the original church here)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Blickling in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TG1728/blickling/] [accessed 17 January 2021], neither of which mentions priest or church in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The church is in Ingworth deanery, and is dedicated to St. Andrew", and names "Alan de Ely" as first recorded rector here, but he resigned in the same year and was replaced by "Mr. William de Foderingheie" until his return to the rectory in 1311. Blomefield (ibid.) writes of a feud John Fitz Robert and his brother William had involving the manor and the church here, that was recorded "when the Black Book of the Exchequer was made, about 1165". The font here is described and illustrated with an engraving by J. Basire in Repton (1812) as a baptismal font "from about the reign of King Henry the Sixth to that of Henry the Eighth" [i.e., 1428?]. Font and cover are illustrated on a print from an etching made between 1827 and 1844 by Elizabeth Matilda Palgrave, now in the British Museum collections [ref.: 1902,0514.1023 -- PPA345810]. Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Perp[endicular], octagonal, with four lions against the stem and eight lions in panels against the bowl: altogether twelve self-satisfied lions." Octagonal baptismal font probably of the 15th century, consisting of an octagonal basin with a sedente-regardant lion on each panel, and a cherub at each of the angles of the underbowl; the lower level of the underbowl or, perhaps more appropriately, the upper end of the stem, is decorated with large leaf motif; octagonal-to-square pedestal base, the sides alternating with sedente lions and crocketed buttresses; the font is now [2003] brightly painted; the wooden cover is octagonal, with eight ribs around a central pivot, in the Jacobean design, though probably modern; Basire's engraving in Repton [cf. supra], however, shows a drawing of a different font cover, octagonal pyramidal with convex sides. Noted and illustrated in Knott (2005) as probably composite, and with modern paint. [NB: we have no information on the font from the original church here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches, and to Craig Thornber, of www.thornber.net, for their photograph of this church and font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 380787 5852571
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.809734, 1.231324
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 48′ 35.04″ N, 1° 13′ 52.76″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern / Victorian
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: the present cover is Victorian [cf. FontNotes for the earlier cover drawing in Repton (1812), etc.]
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 6: 381-409 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78270] [accessed 29 May 2013]
- 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 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 399
- Repton, John Adey, "Specimens of Fonts, collected from different Churches, by John Adey Repton, Esq. F.A.S. In a Letter addressed to Craven Ord, Esq. F.R.S. and F.A.S.V.P., read 12th March, 1807", XVI, Archaeologia, 1812, pp. 335-337 and pl. XXXVII-XLV; p. 336-337 and pl. XLII fig. 1