Shotesham No. 2 / Great Shotesham / High Shotesham / Scotesha / Scotesia / Scotessa / Scotessâ / Scotessam

Standing permission

Results: 19 records

Click to view images and/or subjects

B01: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - blank

Scene Description: one of four

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

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B02: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant

Scene Description: one of four

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

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B03: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - blank

Scene Description: one of four

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

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B04: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant

Scene Description: one of four

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

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B05: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - blank

Scene Description: one of four

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

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B06: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant

Scene Description: one of four

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

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B07: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - blank

Scene Description: one of four

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

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B08: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant

Scene Description: one of four

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

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B09: design element - motifs - floral

Scene Description: on the sides of the panels of the basin that contain lions

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

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

BU01: angel - head - 8

Scene Description: at the angles of the underbowl

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

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

BU02: design element - motifs - floral - 8

Scene Description: on the sides of the lower level of the underbowl chamfer

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

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

UB01: animal - mammal - lion - sejant

Scene Description: one of four

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

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

UB02: animal - mammal - lion - sejant

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

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

UB03: animal - mammal - lion - sejant

Scene Description: one of four

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

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

UB04: animal - mammal - lion - sejant

Scene Description: one of four

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

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

UB05: design element - architectural - buttress - 4

Scene Description: between the seated lions of the stem

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

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: remains of reddish paint on the ear and mouth of one of the lions

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

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - east view

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott, 2006 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/shotesham2/shotesham2.htm] [accessed 28 February 2007]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: the top of the font visible among the benches on the right-hand (north) side

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott, 2006 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/shotesham2/shotesham2.htm] [accessed 28 February 2007]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 03470SHO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

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

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B1332, about 15 km SSE of Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Henstede [aka Henstead]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, N side, opposite the S entrance

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

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

Cognate Fonts: Shotesham All Saints, Norwich no. 4, etc.

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, and to Janice Tostevin for the information on and photographs of this 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 [...] The church of St. Mary in Little or Low Shotesham, belonged formerly in an alternate presentation, to the manors of Shotesham-Hall, and St. Benet's; and in 1187 there was a great contest about it, before the Bishop of Norwich and Ralph Glanvile, justices itinerants, between Ralf Abbot of Holm, who claimed it as a chapel belonging to his church of St. Martin, and Robert de Vaux released all right in St. Martin's to the Abbot, and he, all his right in St. Mary's to Robert, and all the lands in both parishes were to be parted equally, and a moiety settled on each church, and the lands of Vaux's fee to belong all to St. Mary and those of the Abbot's fee to St. Martin; each was to be a mother-church [...] The church of St. Mary is 40 feet long, and 19 broad, and the church is 20 feet long; it hath a square tower 60 feet high, and but one bell. [...] Norwich Domesday tells us, that St. Mary, when a rectory, had a house and 20 acres of glebe, and paid 6d. synodals, and 6s. 8d. procurations, and when it became a vicarage it was valued with that of St. Botolph" [NB: cf. Index entry for Shotesam No. 3]. The present font is described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "C15. Octagonal. Four lions against the stem, four lions and four angels with shields against the bowl." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2006). Baptismal font of the East Anglian type: octagonal basin with deeply-carved panels decorated with angels holding charged shields alternating with seated lions; angel heads at the underbowl angles, the chamfered lower sides decorated with floral motifs; four seated lions at four angles of the stem, alternating with thin buttresses between them; square lower base with chamfered angles on a plinth of the same shape. Flat octagonal wooden cover with metal decoration and handle; appears modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.542842, 1.312054

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 32′ 34.23″ N, 1° 18′ 43.39″ E

UTM: 31U 385533 5822756

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

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: 2007-03-02 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

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