Norwich No. 23 / Norwic

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Results: 8 records

design element - architectural - window - cinquefoiled

Scene Description: a pair on each panel plus a single narrow one at each angle

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2004

Image Source: Jonathan Plunkett (from George Plunkett's collection)

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 1/4/2004)

design element - motifs - rectangle

Scene Description: all around the lower basin side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2004

Image Source: Jonathan Plunkett (from George Plunkett's collection)

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 1/4/2004)

view of church exterior - southwest end

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n.], 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2006 [author not stated] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Michael_at_Plea,_Norwich_-_through_lavender.jpg] [accessed 6 September 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrewrabbott, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 February 2015 by Andrewrabbott [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interior_of_St_Michael_at_Plea,_Norwich_03.jpg] [accessed 6 September 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrewrabbott, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 February 2015 by Andrewrabbott [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interior_of_St_Michael_at_Plea,_Norwich_01.jpg] [accessed 6 September 2015]

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view of font and canopy, baldachin - canopy

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2004

Image Source: Jonathan Plunkett (from George Plunkett's collection)

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 1/4/2004)

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the font and cover have been retainde in the now redundant church that is being used as bookstore

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrewrabbott, 2015

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 7 February 2015 by Andrewrabbott [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interior_of_St_Michael_at_Plea,_Norwich_02.jpg] [accessed 6 September 2015]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: towards the west end, north side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrewrabbott, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 February 2015 by Andrewrabbott [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interior_of_St_Michael_at_Plea,_Norwich_02.jpg] [accessed 6 September 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09430NOR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael at Plea [redundant]
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: 2 Redwell Street, Norwich, Norfolk NR2 4SN
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located on Queen St & Redwell St
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, N side
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.
Church Notes: used as a Christian bookshop in 2015, but the font and cover still in it
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. Bell (1927) lists an undated water-colour drawing of this font by Miles Edmund Cotman in the Bulwer Collection. Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Font. Octagonal, simple, with demi-figures of angels against the underside. Font cover. C17. With four columns, an openwork obelisk in the middle, and a tall top with an obelisk and a dove." Baptismal font of the 15th century, Perpendicular style. The octagonal basin has vertical sides, each panel decorated with a pair of cinquefoil windows; the arris between each panel has been flattened and carved with a very narrow cinquefoil arch or window; the lower side of the basin has protruding rectangular motifs; the angles of the chamfer are decorated [foliage? heads?]. There is a tall 17th-century wooden canopy mounted on the rim on the font; it rests on four slender colonnettes which support a roof-like octagon, above which is a rib-around-a-pivot structure similar to that found on Jacobean font covers; it ends in a finial consisting of a pointed obelisk with a dove atop.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.6303, 1.297153
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 37′ 49.08″ N, 1° 17′ 49.75″ E
UTM: 31U 384752 5832507

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th century?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Bell, C.F., Miles Edmund Cotman (1810-1858): with a catalogue of fifty drawings by him, selected from the Bulwer Collection, London: Walker's Galleries, [1927?]
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997