Norwich No. 27 / Norwic

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]