Norwich No. 15 / Norwic
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view of font and cover
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view of font and cover
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design element - motifs - floral - Tudor rose - 4?
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symbol - shield - 4?
Scene Description: blank now
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angel - cherub - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2004
Image Source: Jonathan Plunkett (from George Plunkett's collection)
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design element - motifs - floral - flower - 4-petal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2004
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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design element - architectural - window - cinquefoiled - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2004
Image Source: Jonathan Plunkett (from George Plunkett's collection)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 09438NOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Giles
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Church Address: 70 St Giles Street, Norwich, Norfolk NR2 1LT
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on St. Giles 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. Faces on the underside; flowers and little shields against the bowl." Baptismal font of the 15th or 16th century, Perpendicular style. The octagonal basin has vertical sides, the panels decorated with a deeply cut quatrefoil window which houses a large Tudor rose or a blank shield on alternate panels; the underbowl has cherubs at the angles and, lower down, a four-leaf flower on each panel; the stem of the base is decorated with a cinquefoil window on each panel; the lower base is slightly wider, plain and octagonal. The plinth is also octagonal, with two or three steps. The cover appears modern, perhaps a stylised version of a popular Jacobean style. [We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this font, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1937-1938]
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 384096 5832432
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.629489, 1.287486
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 37′ 46.16″ N, 1° 17′ 14.95″ 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: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 236