Norwich No. 15 / Norwic

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angel - cherub - 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)

design element - motifs - floral - Tudor rose - 4?

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 - flower - 4-petal

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

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

symbol - shield - 4?

Scene Description: blank now

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 - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 September 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2063947] [accessed 7 September 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 September 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2063955] [accessed 7 September 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 September 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2063995] [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

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 September 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2063996] [accessed 7 September 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09438NOR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Giles

Church Patron Saints: St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]

Church Location: 70 St Giles Street, Norwich, Norfolk NR2 1LT

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located on St. Giles St.

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.

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. 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]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.629489, 1.287486

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 37′ 46.16″ N, 1° 17′ 14.95″ E

UTM: 31U 384096 5832432

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