Norwich No. 28 / Norwic

Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Standing permission
Results: 13 records
B01: human figure - head - in a foliated panel
B02: human figure - male - head - bearded - in a foliated panel
B03: human figure - female - head - wearing headdress - in a foliated panel
B04: human figure - child? - head - in a foliated panel
design element - architectural - arch-head - trefoiled - intersecting - 8
design element - motifs - floral - 16
design element - motifs - floral and foliage - 4
design element - motifs - foliage
view of church exterior - south view
![the church at Tasburgh, where the font is now [March 2008+]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1090730024_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the church at Tasburgh, where the font is now [March 2008+]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 March 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/tasburgh/tasburgh.htm] [accessed 30 July 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
view of font
view of font and cover
view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the font from Norwich St. Simon and St. Jude's church photographed inside the church at Tasburgh
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 March 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/tasburgh/tasburgh.htm] [accessed 30 July 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 09424NOR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Simon and St. Jude [redundant]
Church Patron Saints: St. Simon & St. Jude
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located on Wensum St. [Tasburgh is located 13 km S of Norwich]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [in Tasburgh parish church since 1938]
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this font, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1937-1938, just before the move of the font to Tasburgh, Norfolk. We are also grateful to Simon Knott, www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, and to Janice Tostevin for their photographs of this font when already in Tasburgh {2008 and 2010]
Church Notes: 14thC church redundant since 1952; used as a Scouts' Hall
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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. Octagonal mounted baptismal font of the 15th century. The basin is octagonal with vertical sides, the panels framed and decorated with floral and foliage combinations; the chamfer of the underbowl is slightly curved, and decorated with floral and foliage patterns as well; the stem of the base is octagonal, each panel decorated with a rosette with square outer shape [but not a 'square flower']; the lower base splays out; the plinth is octagonal, both plain. The Tasburgh community web site [www.tasburgh.com] informs: "in 1938 a beautiful font dating from the 14th century was brought from the disused Norwich church of St Simon and St Jude." [cf. Index entry for Tasburgh]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.632047,
1.297642
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 37′ 55.37″ N,
1° 17′ 51.51″ E
UTM: 31U 384790 5832701
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: the font cover now [March 2008+] on the font is octagonal and flat, with moulded sides
REFERENCES
Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-07-30 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.