Norwich No. 18 / Norwic

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.