Coltishall / Cokereshala / Coketeshala / Colteshall / Coulshill

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 November 2008 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/coltishall/coltishall.htm] [accessed 23 May 2013]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 June 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/873371] [accessed 23 May 2013]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of an Illustrated in a 1813 print from an etching by T. Wright, now in the British Museum collections [ref.: 1902,0514.1112 -- PPA364566]

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view of font

Scene Description: showing the font with the present base -- date of the drawing unknown; perhaps ca. 1928

Image Source: digital image of a drawing in Tyrrell-Green (1928: fig. 42)

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 16 arches

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 November 2008 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/coltishall/coltishall.htm] [accessed 23 May 2013]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 November 2008 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/coltishall/coltishall.htm] [accessed 23 May 2013]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 November 2008 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/coltishall/coltishall.htm] [accessed 23 May 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: only the top of the cover is visible behind the south bank of benches, at the west end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 November 2008 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/coltishall/coltishall.htm] [accessed 23 May 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: showing the font and its cover at the west end of the nave, south side, near the south arcade

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 November 2008 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/coltishall/coltishall.htm] [accessed 23 May 2013]

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view of font cover

Scene Description: the restored cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 November 2008 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/coltishall/coltishall.htm] [accessed 23 May 2013]

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view of font and cover in context

showing the base of the font as a single square block -- date of the watercolour not known, but probably in the first half of the 19th century

Scene Description: showing the base of the font as a single square block -- date of the watercolour not known, but probably in the first half of the 19th century

Image Source: digital image of a Pencil and watercolour. 27.5 x 20.3 cm. Bequeathed by R.J. Colman, 1946. Museum number NWHCM : 1951.235.1223.B189 : F"

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 05873COL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Medieval

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist

Church Address: Church Street, Coltishall, Norfolk, NR12

Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located on the B1354, about 12 km NNE of Norfolk up the B1150

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of South Erpingham

Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the pre-Conquest church here) -- altered font: base varies according to the period [cf. FontNotes]

Font Notes: Click to view

There are two entries for Coltishall [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TG2719/coltishall/] [accessed 12 February 2023], one of which reports "2 churches. 0.15 church lands" in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "at the Conqueror's survey [...] Colteshall had then a church and 10 acres of glebe [...] There was a Church here, long before the Conquest, but the present building, after it was finished, was dedicated to St. John the Baptist, on the day of the Conversion of St. Paul, by William de Middleton Bishop of Norwich, in the year 1284; the tower is square, and hath six bells in it, the nave and chancel are thatched, the north porch and south isle leaded, and the porch tiled". Blomefield (ibid.) names "Roger" as first recorded rector, in 1270. Illustrated in a 1813 print from an etching by T. Wright, now in the British Museum collections [ref.: 1902,0514.1112 -- PPA364566]. The font here is noted in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 as Norman. This font is described and illustrated in Tyrrell-Green (1928), Pevsner & Wilson (1997) and in Billett (2006). Illustrated in Knott (2009). Square mounted baptismal font of the Norman period; the sides of the basin are ornamented with a blind arcade of sixteen round arches, four per side; the basin well is round; the base consists of a central pillar and four corner colonnettes, all round and plain; the whole is raised on a low square platform. Wooden font cover consisting of a Jacobean-style centre piece of eight scroll ribs around a centre pivot on a flat square platform with decorative knobs at the angles; brightly gilded and painted. There is a pencil and watercolour painting of this font in the Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery [Museum no.: NWHCM : 1951.235.1223.B189 : F] [www.sandys.norfolk.gov.uk/sand148.htm] [accessed 23 May 2013], in which the font appears with a square base instead of the present five-support, the same as on the 1813 print at the BM above; we know the font had the five-shaft support ca. 1928 as shown in Tyrrell-Green's book, showing that, at least between 1813 and 1928 the base was the quadrangular block shown in those two sources. The font cover appears in the same painting but it shows unpainted or faded. Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble: "bowl with four panels on each face" [source given: The Revd. J. Fellingham].

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church and font

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 389457 5843261

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.727917, 1.363036

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 43′ 40.5″ N, 1° 21′ 46.93″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)

Font Shape: square, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: none

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Billett, Michael, English thatched churches, London: Robert Hale, 2006, p. 91 and ill. on p. 90
Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 6: 303-310 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78255] [accessed 23 May 2013]
Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975, p. 71
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ec.uk/report.asp?compid=50890] [accessed 24 January 2007]
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 438-439
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 27, 75 and fig. 42 on p. 76