Norwich No. 18 / Norwic
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view of font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2038044] [accessed 7 September 2015]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2004
Image Source: Jonathan Plunkett (from George Plunkett's collection)
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design element - patterns - crenellated
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2004
Image Source: Jonathan Plunkett (from George Plunkett's collection)
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angel - holding shield - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2004
Image Source: Jonathan Plunkett (from George Plunkett's collection)
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design element - motifs - moulding, piping or buttress
Scene Description: separating the panels of the basin, underbowl and 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)
view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2038013] [accessed 7 September 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2038036] [accessed 7 September 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2038018] [accessed 7 September 2015]
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: one of the angels holding shields
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2005 by Janice Tostevin
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design element - architectural - window - quatrefoiled - pair (one-up-one-down) - 8
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 - foliage
Scene Description: on each of the lower level of the graded lower 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: 09435NOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Laurence
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the tower
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Address: St Benedict's Street, Norwich, Norfolk, NR2 4PE
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on St. Benedict's St.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
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. Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Font. Stuck under the tower. Stem panelled and with fleurons. Bowl with demi-figures of angels in square, framed and cusped fields, but placed so that their heads reach above the crenellated top frame, an unsusual and veru successful motif." Baptismal font of the 15th century, Perpendicular style. The octagonal basin has vertical sides, each panel decorated with an angel [?] holding a shield [blank now] and separated by a thick moulding or buttress; above it, a band of crenellated pattern; the underbowl chamfer, with a slightly concave curve, is decorated with a leaf on each panel; the panels of the stem of the base, like those of the basin, are separated with mouldings in the form of buttresses; each panel is decorated with a pair of deeply set quatrefoil windows one-up-one-down; the lower base, also octagonal, has an upper section which is graded outwards. one of the grades decorated with a rosette on each panel. The font appears covered with a plain flat wooden lid.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this font, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1937-1938. We are also grateful to Janice Tostevin for her photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 384231 5832643
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.631414, 1.289404
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 37′ 53.09″ N, 1° 17′ 21.85″ 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, probably modern
REFERENCES
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 242