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B01: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - the instruments of the Passion

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B02: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B03: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - Eucharist

Scene Description: three chalices with Host [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B04: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant

Scene Description: one of four

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B05: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - Trinity

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B06: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant

Scene Description: one of four

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B07: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - See of Ely (three crowns)

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B08: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B09: design element - motifs - floral

Scene Description: on the panels of the basin, around the lions

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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BU01: angel - head - 8

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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BU02: design element - motifs - floral - 8

Scene Description: on the lower level of the underbowl chamfer

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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UB01: animal - mammal - lion - sejant

Scene Description: one of four

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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UB02: animal - mammal - lion - sejant

Scene Description: one of four

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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UB03: animal - mammal - lion - sejant

Scene Description: one of four

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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UB04: animal - mammal - lion - sejant

Scene Description: one of four

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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design element - architectural - buttress - 4

Scene Description: alternating with seated lions on the four angles of the stem of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: one of the damaged spots; this one probably related to the metal staple of the cover; on the basin side with the emblem of the Instruments of the Passion

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: another damaged spot; on one of the basin sides with the seating lions

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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view of basin - underbowl - detail

Scene Description: one of the eight angel heads

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott taken on September 2006

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2009 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1371797] [accessed 25 April 2013]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font is visible at the west end, centre aisle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2009 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1371831] [accessed 25 April 2013]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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view of font cover

Scene Description: 20th-century

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03469SHO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Roger's Lane, Shotesham, Norfolk NR15 1XH

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 10 km S of Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Henstede [aka Henstead]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the W tower

Century and Period: 15th century [re-cut], Perpendicular [altered?]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font / heraldic font

Cognate Fonts: Paley (1844) gives Saxlingham, Hales, Blicking, All Saints and St. Mary, Shotesham and Lev[th?]eringham either as copies or done by the same artist

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk], and to Janice Tostevin, for the information on and photographs of this church and font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes in his entry for Shotesham: "it was in above twelve parts, at the Confessor's and Conqueror's surveys; it had four capital manors, four parish churches, two hamlets [...] Contained the parish of Shotesham All-Saints, commonly called High Shotesham, from the situation of the church on a great eminence [...] The church of All-Saints, called high or Great Shotesham church, [...] The steeple is square, and 60 feet in height, and hath a ring of five tuneable bells; the church is 56 feet long and 18 feet and a half broad, and the chancel is 26 feet long and 15 broad". There is no mention of any font in Blomefield's entries for the churches in Shotesham. In his entry for Norwich St. John de Sepulchre's font, Paley (1844) describes this as a baptismal font of a design that "seems to be a favourite one in Norfolk, as there are several of the same style and character, with so little variation in the form and decorations as to leave scarcely any doubt that they were either copied from each other, or were the work of one artist. We can name Saxlingham, Hales, Blicking, All Saints and St. Mary, Shotesham, and Leveringham." Octagonal mounted font of the 15th century in the Perpendicular style, of the East Anglian type; the octagonal basin has four sides ornamented with seated lions, alternating with dimi-figures of angels holding charged shields on the other four; the upper level of the underbowl has an angel head with spread wings at each of the eight angles, with floral motifs on the lower part of the chamfer; the base has a seated lion on each of four angles alternating with buttresses on sides proper; moulded octagonal lower base. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports "a curiously-sculptured font" at Shotesham All Saints'. Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999), who identify the emblems of the Trinity, the Instruments of the passion, three crowns and three chalices on the shields held by angels. Knott (2006) notes that the font "has been very recut, and now hides beneath the tower". Knott (ibid.) adds that "St Mary has the better font", this being "a near-twin". [NB:

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.542459, 1.312247

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 32′ 32.85″ N, 1° 18′ 44.09″ E

UTM: 31U 385545 5822713

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 20th-century

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

Notes: crown-shaped octagonal wooden cover; gilded and painted; 20th-century

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2007-02-28 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

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

Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999