Norwich No. 22 / Norwic

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coat of arms - unidentified

Scene Description: one in each of the windows of the panels

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

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design element - architectural - window - Gothic

Scene Description: a combination of Ogee and trefoil on the panels of the sides, upper part

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

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design element - architectural - window - octafoiled - 8

Scene Description: each with a shield in the centre

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

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design element - architectural - window - quatrefoiled (in a frame of tracery)

Scene Description: one on each panel, lower part

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

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary Coslaney, Norwich. Here is the oldest tower of any of the Norwich churches dating from before the Conquest. The double triangular-headed windows with a central column are reminiscent of the period. The Saxon church was demolished and the one we see today erected but the tower was preserved."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2010 by Adrian S Pye [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1956478] [accessed 7 September 2015]

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view of font and canopy, baldachin - canopy

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

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09431NOR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary Coslany [redundant]

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: St Mary's Plain, Norwich, Norfolk NR3 3AF

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located on St. Mary's Plain, off Oak St.

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

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: round-tower church originally early 11thC

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. Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Font. Octagonal, panelled stem, bowl with shields in cusped fields. Font cover. Later C17. Tall, with four Ionic columns up to a circular entablature, then eight tall volutes above around a central column with a Corinthian capital." Octagonal mounted baptismal font, probably late Perpendicular. The basin has an octafoil window on each face, deeply cut and with a shield bearing a coat of arms in it; plain graded chamfer; the stem of the base has two parts: the upper has a row of Ogee and trefoil windows alternating on the sides, whereas the lower has a quatrefoil window framed in tracery on each panel; the lower base splays out slightly and is plain. Plain octagonal plinth with rectangular kneeling stone extending on one of the sides. Mounted on the rim of the font on four colonnettes is an 18th-century canopy. [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: 52.633976, 1.291075

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 38′ 2.32″ N, 1° 17′ 27.87″ E

UTM: 31U 384350 5832926

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: three?

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th - 18th century?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997