Norwich No. 16 / Norwic / Lakenham
Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Unusually, the baptismal font was moved to the east end of the south aisle at some time in the past. It is original and dates from the 14th century. Separating the font from the organ is a modern batik by local artist Irene Ogden."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 September 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2066258] [accessed 7 September 2015]
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view of font - southwest side
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 font - east side
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 - floral - Tudor flower
Scene Description: several, four-petal, on the underbowl
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 - floral - Tudor rose - pair (one-up-one-down)
Scene Description: on all sides of the stem except the east side, which replaces the upper symbol with a crown
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)
Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol - 4
Scene Description: on every other panel of the basin
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)
angel - holding scroll
Scene Description: on the east side of the font, between two of the Evangelists' symbols
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 - crown
Scene Description: above the Tudor rose
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 - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2011 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2570239] [accessed 7 September 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 September 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2066272] [accessed 7 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 September 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2066255] [accessed 7 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
design element - architectural - window - trefoiled - in an Ogee arch - 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)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 09437NOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John and All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John & All Saints
Church Address: Harwood Road, Norwich, Norfolk NR1 2NR -- Tel.: +44 1603 625678
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
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. Baptismal font of the Decorated period and style. The octagonal basin has vertical sides, the panels decorated with the symbols of the Evangelists alternating with others [the east side has an angel holding a scroll]; the underbowl is slightly curved [concave] and decorated with foliage, chiefly the four-leaf Tudor rose; the stem of the base has trefoil windows within Ogee arches, each of them housing Tudor roses in a one-up-one-down alignment, all except the upper motif on the east side which, instead of a rose is a crown; the lower base is plain and slightly splayed with vertical sides. Flat and plain wooden cover, probably modern.
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 384640 5829890
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.606757, 1.296418
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 36′ 24.32″ N, 1° 17′ 47.11″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and plain