Norwich No. 17 / Norwic

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angel - holding shield - 8

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 - cinquefoiled - 8

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 - north view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Julian's church has an international reputation because of Dame Julian of Norwich, who chose to live here in the later 14th century. But despite common belief, the church is not dedicated to her but to St Julian, Bishop of Le Mans."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1958118] [accessed 7 September 2015]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "The round tower - it is one of four found at Norwich churches - collapsed due to the bombing and was only partially rebuilt."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1958123] [accessed 7 September 2015]

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view of font and cover

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

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 1/4/2004)

view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "The baptismal font dates from the 14th century and came from All Saints' church. It has unusual carvings depicting the 12 apostles around the bowl and saints around the stem."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1958149] [accessed 7 September 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09436NOR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Julian

Church Patron Saints: St. Julian, Bishop of Le Mans [not Dame Julian of Norwich, as it is sometimes claimed]

Church Location: St Julians Alley, Norwich, Norfolk NR1 1QY

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

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: church originally 11th and 12thC; much damaged in WWII; re-built 20thC

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 & Wilson (1997): "Font. Moved from All Saints in 1977. Especially good. Octagonal. Against the stem eight standing figurines (Apostles and four others), against the bowl sixteen (cf. that removed from St. James), including St Michael and St George. A bequest for its 'emendation' was made in 1448." 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]; graded underbowl chamfer; the stem of the base has a cinquefoil arch/window on each panel of the upper half, the lower half being plain; splayed lower base and octagonal plinth, both plain. Flat and plain wooden cover, probably modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.626528, 1.299508

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 37′ 35.5″ N, 1° 17′ 58.23″ E

UTM: 31U 384902 5832084

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: three?

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