Norwich No. 8 / Norwic

There are ten entries for Norwich [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TG2308/norwich/] [accessed 13 October 2020], one of which records "22.7 churches. 2.57 church lands" in it; a separate entry records a priest and a church in it. Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a baptismal font of the 13th century consisting of an octagonal basin of slightly inclined sides and a base made of nine columns {NB: Bond's footnote on p. 303 states thet "the small shafts under the bowl are modern]. The whole is raised on a three-step octagonal plinth. The cover is described in the same source as a Jacobean "lid which opens in two leaves", though his illustration shows two octagonal platforms separated by four thin vertical shafts, with a strange obelisk-like finial that goes on the lower platform rather than the top one [NB: our image source of this font confirms tha shape of the cover, rather a canopy, of the 17th century; the cover proper is flat and has an obelisk-like finial, not the only one in Norwich either]. Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Octagonal, C13, of Purbeck marble, with two shallow arches on each side. The supporting shafts are C19. Font cover. Jacobean or later. Eight columns and an openwork obelisk in the middle." Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble, Polygonal I Type (Hexagonal): "eight subsidiary shafts" [source given: H. Munro Cautley] [NB: the font is actually octagonal].