Norwich No. 20 / Norwic
Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2004
Image and permission received (e-mail of 1/4/2004)
Results: 7 records
view of font and cover
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 - architectural - window - octafoiled - 8
Scene Description: each one with a shield in it
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)
symbol - shield - coat of arms
Scene Description: some of them appear to bear a cross emblem on them
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 - patterns - crenellated
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2004
Image Source: Jonathan Plunkett (from George Plunkett's collection)
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design element - motifs - floral - rosette
Scene Description: a band
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 view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © nicola j patron, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2013 by nicola j patron [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_St_Martin_at_Oak.JPG] [accessed 7 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
design element - architectural - column - 8
Scene Description: in a cluster, forming the base
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)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 09433NOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: pre-1491?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Martin at Oak [redundant]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Notes: original church built before 1491; destroyed in 1942 bombing; re-built; redundant church; now a hostel and a rehearsal studio
Church Address: St Martins Lane, Norwich, Norfolk NR3 3BP
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located at the corner of St Martin's Lane and Oak Street
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Additional Comments: disused font?
Font Notes:
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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. Baptismal font of the early 15th century, Perpendicular style. The octagonal basin has vertical sides, each panel decorated with a large octafoil window in which appears a shield [NB: some of the shields appear to bear a cross on them]; the lower side of the basin is decorated with a band of crenellated pattern; the graded chamfer has a band of rosettes; the base is a cluster of eight slender colonnettes with complex bases and capitals; plain octagonal lower base. The font appears covered with a plain flat wooden lid. [NB: the church was converted into a night-shelter for the homeless -- we have no information on the present whereabouts of this 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.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 384294 5833020
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.634808, 1.290206
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 38′ 5.31″ N, 1° 17′ 24.74″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: unknown
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: plain and flat
REFERENCES
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 243