Horstead / Horsteda / Horstede
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 July 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1546131] [accessed 19 July 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Reproduced under the provisions of the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic Licence
view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Tower 13c remainder rebuilt 1879. Architect R M Phipson"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 15 May 1992 [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Horstead All Saints church from SE [6777] 1992-05-15.jpg] [accessed 15 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church interior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 July 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1546137] [accessed 19 July 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trustees of the British Museum, 2013
Image Source: print from a soft-ground etching made between 1814-1852 by Elizabeth, Lady Palgrave, bow in the British Museum collections [ref.: 1871,0610.598 -- PPA345952]
Copyright Instructions: Reproduced under the British Museum's terms of use
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 July 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1546208] [accessed 19 July 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 06008HOR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Church Close, Horstead, Norfolk NR12 7GL
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located on the B1150, a suburb of Coltishall, about 10 km NNE of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Taverham
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the entranceway
Date: ca. 1300?
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1992
There is an entry for Horstead [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG2619/horstead/] [accessed 15 April 2014], but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is a rectory dedicated to All-Saints [...] The abbess of Caen had a portion of tithe [...] Rectors. In 1300, Walter de Reymes instituted, presented by the proctor of the abbess, &c. of Caen." The present font here is illustrated in a print from a soft-ground etching made between 1814-1852 by Elizabeth, Lady Palgrave, bow in the British Museum collections [ref.: 1871,0610.598 -- PPA345952]. Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one in a very large group of baptismal fonts that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins. Pevsner & Wilson (1997) describe it as "Octagonal, boring, probably C17." The basin is raised on a cluster of colonnettes on an octagonal lower base and an octagonal plinth. The tall wooden cover is octagonal pyramidal, with a knob finial; about three feet tall. Illustrated in Knott (2009)
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.729652,
1.349392
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 43′ 46.75″ N,
1° 20′ 57.81″ E
UTM: 31U 388541 5843475
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810
Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-06-24 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928
