Norwich No. 14 / Norwic

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design element - architectural - window - quatrefoiled - 8

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

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design element - patterns - tracery - window tracery

Scene Description: a trefoiled one in each panel

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

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human figure - head - 8

Scene Description: one at each angle of the graded chamfer

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

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symbol - shield - blank - in a cusped panel

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

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: the church of All Saints in Great Fransham

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/greatfransham/greatfransham.htm] [accessed 31 July 2009]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: the church of St. Etheldreda in Norwich

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2005 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/norwichetheldreda/norwichetheldreda.htm] [accessed 1 August 2009]

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view of church exterior - west end

Scene Description: the church of St. Etheldreda in Norwich

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2005 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/norwichetheldreda/norwichetheldreda.htm] [accessed 1 August 2009]

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view of font

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

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09439NOR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Etheldreda [redundant] [font later moved to Great Fransham]

Church Patron Saints: St. Etheldreda [aka Audrey, Æðelþryð, Æþelðryþe, Æthelthryth, Ediltrudis]

Church Location: King Street, Norwich, Norfolk NR1 1PG

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located on King St. [Great Fransham is located 11 km ENE of Swaffham]

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

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. We are also grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of the churches at Great Fransham and Norwich St. Etheldreda's

Church Notes: round-tower church -- original 12thC church; redundant since 1961; now used as a studio

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. The font at St. Etheldreda's is visible in Cotman's illustration of the church interior (1838). It is a baptismal font of the 15th century, in the Perpendicular style; the octagonal basin has vertical sides, the panels decorated with quatrefoil windows that house a blank shield; the graded chamfer has protruding heads at the angles [they are human and quite distinctive but some are much eroded]; the panels of the octagonal stem of the base are decorated with a single trefoil window each; graded lower base splays out and is otherwise plain. Pevsner & Wilson (1977): note: "Removed. It had shields on the bowl and small heads against the underside." In Pevsner & Wilson's entry for Great Fransham (1999) they described the font: "C15, octagonal, shields to bowl, arcading to stem." Knott (2006) informs that the font at Great Fransham "originally came from the busy city centre parish of St Etheldreda in Norwich." [cf. Index entry for Great Fransham].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.622788, 1.302057

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 37′ 22.04″ N, 1° 18′ 7.4″ E

UTM: 31U 385064 5831664

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: three?

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Cotman, John Sell, Specimens of Architectural Remains in Various Counties in England, but principally in Norfolk, London: H.G. Bohn, 1838

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-07-31 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-08-01 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999