Costessey / Cossey / Cotesia / Costeseia / Costesseye / Costessy

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design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases - 8

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1995362] [accessed 18 March 2013]

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design element - patterns - crenellated

Scene Description: at the upper and lower rims of the basin

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1995362] [accessed 18 March 2013]

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human figure - head - 8

Scene Description: at the lower end of the basin

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1995362] [accessed 18 March 2013]

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symbol - shield - blank - inscribed - 8

Scene Description: four of them are inscribed in cusped panels; the other four are inscribed in a quatrefoil in a circle

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1995362] [accessed 18 March 2013]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 2 July 1933 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Costessey St Edmund's church from SE [B610] 1933-07-02.jpg] [accessed 11 July 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1995303] [accessed 18 March 2013]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 10 April 1939 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Costessey St Edmund's church from SW [2950] 1939-04-10.jpg] [accessed 11 July 204]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2011 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2573779] [accessed 18 March 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1995356] [accessed 18 March 2013]

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2011 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2573780] [accessed 18 March 2013]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05217COS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Edmund
Church Patron Saints: St. Edmund the Martyr [aka Edmund of East Anglia]
Church Location: The Street, Costessey, Norfolk, NR5 OLL
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 7 km WNW of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Foreshoe [aka Foreshou]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1933 and 1939
Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church was dedicated in honour of the holy King Edmund [...] The church consists of a nave only, which is leaded, the chancel is thatched; it hath a square tower and five bells [...] The advowson of the church, with those of Huningham, Bawburgh, and the mediety of Berford, and 10l. per annum rent out of Cossey manor, were given by Alan de Rohan [1084-1147] to the abbey of Bon-Repos, or De Bona Requie in Brittanny or Normandy, and it was confirmed by Henry III" [1216-1272]. The font here is listed in Bond (1908) as having a fine example of Gothic font cover, but without a mention of the font itself. The font is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "C15. Octagonal, with shields in cusped fields." The present cover in use is a plain one, octagonal and flat, modern. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.665574, 1.218007
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 39′ 56.06″ N, 1° 13′ 4.82″ E
UTM: 31U 379493 5836560

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999