Bacton / Bacton nr. Cromer / Baketuna

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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol - 4

Scene Description: alternating with angels holding shields ]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott 2005 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bacton/bacton.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]

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angel - cherub - 8

Scene Description: each head at the angle, the wings spread over the sides of the chamfer

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott 2005 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bacton/bacton.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]

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angel - holding shield - 4

Scene Description: alternating with the symbols of the four Evangelists

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott 2005 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bacton/bacton.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]

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design element - architectural - column - 8

Scene Description: a cluster of four broad shafts and four slender colonnettes making up the stem

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott 2005 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bacton/bacton.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]

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design element - architectural - window - quatrefoiled

Scene Description: on the sides of the steps of the plinth; 24 (3 x 8) on the upper step; 32 (4 x 8) on the next step down 9 [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: Cautley (1949: 125)

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the publisher

design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: at the top and bottom of the stem

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott 2005 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bacton/bacton.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott 2005 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bacton/bacton.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 18 August 1993 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Bacton St Andrew's church from SE [7061] 1993-08-18.jpg] [accessed 24 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bacton/bacton.htm] [accessed 24 April 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - southwest side

Scene Description: Ruins of Bacton Bromholm Priory in 1937

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 22 July 1937 [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Bacton Bromholm Priory church nave from SW [1814] 1937-07-22.jpg] [accessed 24 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of font

Image Source: Cautley (1949: 125)

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the publisher

view of font

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott 2005 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bacton/bacton.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott 2005 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bacton/bacton.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05759BAC

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: Church Road, Bacton, Norfolk NR12 0ET

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located on the NE coast, about 15 km down the B1159 from Cromer, 30-35 km ENE of Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Tunstede

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century (early?), Perpendicular

Cognate Fonts: The choice of motifs on this basin are the same as those on the Saxmundham, Surlingham and Wingfield fonts.

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of church and font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1993

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Bacton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG3333/bacton/] [accessed 24 April 2014], but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes; "The Church of Bacton was a rectory dedicated to St. Andrew, and granted to the prior of Bromholm, by William de Glanvile the founder, who had it appropriated to their house [...] and a vicarage was appointed [...] Ralph occurs vicar in 1257 [...] The church is a single pile, covered with lead, and a chancel with reed, with a square tower and one bell". The Victoria County History (Norfolk, vol. 2, 1906) notes: "The priory of Bromholm, dedicated to the honour of St. Andrew, was founded in 1113 by William de Glanvill, and was made subordinate to the Cluniac house of Castle Acre." Therefore, Bacton church would have existed by 1113 but probably not before 1086, if the Domesday survey is correct. The present font here is illustrated in Cautley (1949). Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Font. Early C15, octagonal. On two traceried steps (renewed). Against the foot four animals. Against the stem attached shafts.and nodding ogee arches bending round them, a decidedly Dec[orated] motif. Against the bowl demi-figures of angels below, and, above, the signs of the four Evangelists and four angels with shields." Octagonal mounted stone font of the Perpendicular period; the vertical sides of the octagonal basin are ornamented with the symbols of the four Evangelists alternating with angels holding shields; an angel's head is at each angle of the underbowl, its wings spreading over the sides of the chamfer; the base is a cluster of columns almost hidden in the exhuberant foliage around it; low octagonal lower base; the multi-step plinth has quatrefoil window motifs all around on at least two of the steps (the upper has three motifs per side; the next step down has four motifs per side. Illustrated in Knott (2005) [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.8502, 1.46727

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 51′ 0.72″ N, 1° 28′ 2.17″ E

UTM: 31U 396786 5856707

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: Jacobean-style with eight-ribs-around-centre-pivot on a flat octagonal base; gilded

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2014-04-24 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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

Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2007-04-05 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997