Foulsham / Folsham
Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2011
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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - 4
Scene Description: painted on the inside of the modern font cover [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 February 2011 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2263134] [accessed 2 October 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 22 May 1994 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/F/Foulsham Holy Innocents church from SE [7121] 1994-05-22.jpg] [accessed 2 October 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 22 May 1994 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/F/Foulsham Holy Innocents church interior E [7122] 1994-05-22.jpg] [accessed 2 October 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of font and cover in context - east side
Scene Description: in the context of the nave; looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 February 2011 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2263134] [accessed 2 October 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font and cover in context - west side
Scene Description: in the context of the nave; looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 February 2011 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2263140] [accessed 2 October 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 05277FOU
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Innocents
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Innocents
Church Location: 4 Hindolveston Road, Foulsham, Norfolk NR20 5SF
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 12-15 km N of East Dereham, 19 km W of Aulsham, 25 km WNW of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Eynford
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in May 1994
The Domesday entry for "Folsham", transcribed and translated in Blomefield (1805-1810), reports that "In King Edward's time [ca. 1042-1066] [...] the church had 22 acres"; but at the time of the survey itself, it was "endowed with 16 acres". Blomefield (ibid.) adds: "The Church is rectory, dedicated to the Holy Innocents, [...] it was built by the Lord Morley, and consists of a nave, 2 isles, and a chancel, and has a square tower with 5 tuneable bells [...] Here is a neat font of stone, with a wooden cover, which opens below, and therein are the four Evangelists painted." [NB: the Lord Morley noted in Blomefiled as builder of this church [cf. supra] would have been Henry Lovel, 8th Baron Morley (d. 1489)]. Bond (1908) mentions that "the interior of the cover had paintings of the Evangelists" and cites C.E. Keyser's List of Buildings having Mural Decorations (lxxxi) as source. Pevsner & Wilson note the 19th-century font but not the cover: "Octagonal, looks Perp[endicular], but replaced in 1887: panelled stem and a bowl with flowers and quatrefoils". Font and cover are noted and illustrated in Knott (2006); the cover is a tall open-work rim-buffet lid with opening doors to provide access to the inner well of the font; they are located at the west end of the nave. [NB: the original church here goes back to pre-Conquest times, but we have no information on the earlier font(s)].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.78517,
1.01309
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 47′ 6.61″ N,
1° 0′ 47.12″ E
UTM: 31U 366004 5850223
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-20th century
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
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
Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-06-22 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997
