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design element - architectural - column - 4

Image Source: Jonathan Plunkett (from George Plunkett's collection); Photograph [14 August 1937]

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design element - architectural - window - quatrefoiled (with rose in the centre) - 8

Scene Description: on the sides of the lower base / upper plinth

Image Source: Jonathan Plunkett (from George Plunkett's collection); Photograph [14 August 1937]

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

Scene Description: with a shield inside each window

Image Source: Jonathan Plunkett (from George Plunkett's collection); Photograph [14 August 1937]

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symbol - shield

Scene Description: one inside each quatrefoil window

Image Source: Jonathan Plunkett (from George Plunkett's collection); Photograph [14 August 1937]

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view of church exterior - southeast view - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "The church of St Margaret de Westwick was closed in 1975, and the furnishings dispersed to other churches. The building is currently used as an exhibition space".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1958351] [accessed 7 September 2015]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: Jonathan Plunkett (from George Plunkett's collection); Photograph [14 August 1937]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09434NOR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret de Weswick [redundant] [font moved to St. Leodegard's, Wyberton, Lincs.]

Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]

Church Location: St Benedict's Street, Norwich NR2 4AG

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: St Margaret's is located at th corner of St Margaret St and St Benedict -- Wyberton [cf. FontNotes] is located 4 km S of Boston

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 15th century, 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: original church 14th-15thC; now redundant; used as gymnasium

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, Harris and Antram (1989) as one of two fonts found in this church ca. 1989: "The second is from St. Margaret, Norwich. Perp[endicular], octagonal, on a high traceried step. Bowl with shields in quatrefoils." [NB: the entry in Pevsner & Wilson (1997) does not mention the transfer but described the font: "C14. On a high traceried step. Bowl with shields in quatrefoils, stem of attached columns alternating with trefoiled panels." The octagonal basin has vertical sides, each panel decorated with a large quatrefoil window with a shield. all inscribed in a circle; the shields appear plain now, but may have been painted in the past; plain graded chamfer; the base is a cluster of eight slender colonnettes with bases and capitals; these columns rest on a wider lower base, also octagonal, the sides of which are decorated with large quatrefoil windows inside circles; unlike those of the basin , these windows house a Tudor rose in the centre; all of it raised on an octagonal plinth. The font appears covered with a plain flat wooden lid.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.631439, 1.288519

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 37′ 53.18″ N, 1° 17′ 18.67″ E

UTM: 31U 384171 5832648

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, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989

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