Norwich No. 21 / Norwic

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design element - architectural - column - 8

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

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design element - architectural - window - Gothic - trefoiled - 2 - with quatrefoil motif between the tips - 8

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

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design element - architectural - window - quatrefoiled - in a circle - 8

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

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design element - patterns - crenellated

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

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design element - patterns - crenellated

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

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 July 2011 by Ashley Dace [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2487190] [accessed 7 September 2015]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 July 2011 by Ashley Dace [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2487328] [accessed 7 September 2015]

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view of church exterior in context

Source caption: "View south along Whitefriars. The tower of St Martin at Palace church can be seen in the background (at left), dwarfed by the high tower and steeple of Norwich Anglican Cathedral."

Scene Description: Source caption: "View south along Whitefriars. The tower of St Martin at Palace church can be seen in the background (at left), dwarfed by the high tower and steeple of Norwich Anglican Cathedral."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1999123] [accessed 7 September 2015]

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view of church interior - detail

Source caption: "The church of St Martin at Palace, Norwich - office space. The church of St Martin at Palace is one of the oldest in Norwich.[...] The church was built on the site of an older church and an excavation carried out in the 1980s revealed that it stands on Norman foundations which were built over a Saxon church. As we see it today the building dates mainly from the 15th century. It was extensively restored in Victorian times [...] When the church became redundant in the 1980s it was converted for use as a Day Centre for the Probation Service. It is in the care of the Norwich Historic Churches Trust".

Scene Description: Source caption: "The church of St Martin at Palace, Norwich - office space. The church of St Martin at Palace is one of the oldest in Norwich.[...] The church was built on the site of an older church and an excavation carried out in the 1980s revealed that it stands on Norman foundations which were built over a Saxon church. As we see it today the building dates mainly from the 15th century. It was extensively restored in Victorian times [...] When the church became redundant in the 1980s it was converted for use as a Day Centre for the Probation Service. It is in the care of the Norwich Historic Churches Trust".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 September 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2065569] [accessed 7 September 2015]

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view of font and cover

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

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09432NOR

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin at Palace [redundant; now a store]

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Church Location: St Martin-at-Palace Plain, Norwich, Norfolk NR3 1RN

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Font Location in Church: Inside the church ca. 1938

Century and Period: 14th - 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: 11thC original church; became redundant in the 1980s; now a store

Font Notes: Click to view

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, C14. The stem has shafts and blank little two-light windows between. Quatrefoils on the bowl." Baptismal font of the late 14th or early 15th century, Perpendicular style. The octagonal basin has vertical sides between crenellated bands, each panel decorated with a large quatrefoil window in a circle; graded chamfer; the base is a busy combination with a cluster of eight slender colonnettes with complex bases and capitals; between the columns, in each of the eight openings, is a window with a pair of trefoil arches and a quatrefoil motif between the tips of the arches. The octagonal lower base or plinth may be from a different period. The font appears covered with a plain flat wooden cover.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.63364, 1.299919

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 38′ 1.1″ N, 1° 17′ 59.71″ E

UTM: 31U 384948 5832874

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: plain and flat

REFERENCES

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