Norwich No. 27 / Norwic

Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2004
Image and permission received (e-mail of 1/4/2004)
Results: 4 records
B01: design element - architectural - window - quatrefoiled - in a circle
LB01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - crocketed
LB02: animal - fabulous animal or monster - head
INFORMATION
FontID: 09426NOR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. George (Colegate) [originally from the Parish Church of St. Saviour]
Church Location: Colegate, Junction with St George's Street, Norwich, Norfolk, NR3 1DD
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 14th century (mid?), Decorated
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this font, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1937-1938.
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. The font at St. Saviour's appears in Cotman's 1838 illustration of the church interior (1838, vol. 2). It is a bBaptismal font of the 14th century, Decorated style; the polygonal [hexagonal?] basin has vertical sides, the panels decorated with a large quatrefoil window in a circle and framed in a square; the plain graded chamfer has vertical sides; the base is made of a cluster of columns, each decorated with a crocketed trefoil arch at the top and ending in a monster head at the bottom; the lower base also polygonal [hexagonal?] is plain and tall, incorporating a short kneeling stone. The basin is lead lined, the lining wrapping over the upper rim. Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997) in their entry for St. George's, Colegate: "The present [font] comes from St Saviour's/ Of the mid C14. Octagonal. The stem has engaged columns with grotesque head-bases and nodding ogee tops under the bowl. The bowl itself with encircled quatrefoils is from some other font." [We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this font, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1937-1938]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.633197,
1.2939
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 37′ 59.51″ N,
1° 17′ 38.04″ E
UTM: 31U 384539 5832834
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: polygonal [hexagonal?] (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal [hexagonal?]
Drainage Notes: lead lined
REFERENCES
Cotman, John Sell, Specimens of Architectural Remains in Various Counties in England, but principally in Norfolk, London: H.G. Bohn, 1838
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997