Norwich No. 12 / Norwic

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Results: 24 records

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B01: Christ - Christ in Majesty - holding bannered cross staff in left hand - right hand raised in benediction?

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B02: Apostle or saint - male - seated - holding book in the right hand - holding staff in the left hand - unidentified

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B03: Apostle or saint - male - seated - bearded - holding staff in the left hand? - unidentified

Scene Description: the right hand may have held up another object; the object in the left hand may have been a staff

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B04: Apostle or saint - male - bearded - seated - unidentified

Scene Description: the broken off right hand may have an object which the left hand points to

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B05: human figure - female - seated - wearing headdress - holding scroll

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B06: Apostle or saint - seated - male - bearded - right hand leaning on book - left hand raised

Scene Description: there appears to be a book under his right hand, which is raised on an arm-rest; there is no arm-rest for the left arm, which is raised

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B07: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter - holding book in the right hand - holding key in the left hand

Scene Description: the upper end of the key is broken off

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B08: human figure - female - seated - wearing headdress - right hand raised - holding book in the left hand

Scene Description: the right hand, and whatever object it may have held, is broken off; notice the chain holding her cape below the neck

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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BU01: design element - patterns - tracery - reticular

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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BU02: design element - motifs - floral - rosette

Scene Description: tiny ones, at the tips and crossings of the reticular tracery

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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UB01: cleric - on a pedestal

Scene Description: this one has both arms broken off

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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UB02: cleric - holding book in the left hand on a pedestal

Scene Description: the right hand is broken off

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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UB03: cleric - on a pedestal

Scene Description: the right hand is visible; the left hand is broken off

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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UB04: cleric - on a pedestal

Scene Description: the right hand is visible; the left hand is broken off

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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UB05: cleric - holding sword in the right hand - holding book in the left hand - on a pedestal

Scene Description: the right hand appears to hold a point-down sword by the handle, but the upper part is damaged and makes the identification uncertain; the left hand holds a book (?) with ornate wrap

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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UB06: cleric - holding unidentified object in the right hand - holding anchor in the left hand - on a pedestal

Scene Description: the damaged object in the right hand could be a hammer or a key; the object in the left hand appears to be a double-fluked andchor with a ring at both ends of the shank

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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UB07: cleric - holding unidentified object in the right hand - holding anchor in the left hand - on a pedestal

Scene Description: the object in the right hand could be a key; the object in the left hand appears to be a double-fluked andchor with a ring at both ends of the shank; this figure, though wearing distinct his vestments from the previous one (to the left), carries identical symbols

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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UB08: cleric - on a pedestal

Scene Description: both arms broken off

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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UB09: design element - architectural - niche - pointed arch - 8

Scene Description: each housing a cleric on a pedestal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: the Church of St. Mary, Erpingham

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 January 2010 by Andrew Hill [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1679818] [accessed 12 February 2012]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - west tower

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Benedict, Norwich. The tower is all that remains of the old church destroyed during an air raid in 1942."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 September 2013 by Ben [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3638184] [accessed 7 September 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior - nave - looking northeast

Scene Description: the font, originally from Norwich St. Bemedict's, located in the north aisle, west end, seen now at Erpingham St. Mary's

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 January 2010 by Andrew Hill [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/28732111] [accessed 12 February 2012]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the font seen while still at Norwich St. Benedict's; a few years later it would be moved to Erpingham St. Mary's

Image Source: B&W photograph taken ca. 1937 by 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: the font originally from Norwich St. Benedict's now in Erpingham St. Mary's

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09441NOR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Benedict [font moved to Erpingham]

Church Patron Saints: St. Benedict [aka Benet]

Church Location: Pottergate, Norwich, Norfolk NR2 4AG

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 15th century [re-cut], Perpendicular [altered?]

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 Janice Tostevin for her photographs of this font taken in Erpingham parish church in 2011

Church Notes: round-tower church -- original church of the 11thC; badly damaged in WWII

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. Pevsner & Wilson (1997), who note the drastically re-cut seated figures on the basin sides, report this font having been moved to the parish Church of St. Mary in Erpingham, also in Norfolk [NB: must have been moved between 1937 and 1997, most likely when St. Benedict's was damaged by bombing in WWII]. Noted and illustrated in Knott (2005). Baptismal font of the 15th century, in the Perpendicular style. The octagonal basin has vertical sides, the panels housing deeply set figures [of the three visible in the source image, all seated, the one on the left is a female -and abbess or nun- the other two are male]; the underbowl is a slightly rounded concave chamfer, decorated with intersecting ribs like those of a vaulted ceiling, with rosettes at the intersections; the stem is also octagonal, each side with a deeply set niche in an Ogee arch; each arch contains a figure standing on a tall stool or pedestal, all of which appear to be clerics; the lower base, also octagonal, is splaying and rounded on the top, while the next volume has vertical sides, all plain. Octagonal plinth. Octagonal wooden cover, plain and flat, probably modern. The identification of the figures is by needs tentative, as the re-carving and the damage appears to have eliminated or obscured some of the symbols held by the seated figures, and we do not know whether the ones that remain (e.g.: Peter's key) are original or recarved; if we consider the consistent pattern of willful damage carried out by iconoclasts, the most likely damage was done on the heads of the figures, and most show the re-carving in the coloration of the replacement stone. The figures in the niches of the stem wear varied clerical vestments; several of them have had their arms or hands broken off; others hold objects that are not easily identified as they are damaged and some may have been recarved; two of the figures, however, carry a large key-like object in their right hand, and a double-fluked anchor in their left hand.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.631328, 1.285997

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 37′ 52.78″ N, 1° 17′ 9.59″ E

UTM: 31U 384000 5832639

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: octagonal, flat and plain

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a history of Norfolk, Fersfield, Norwich and Lynn: [Printed in the author's own press], 1739-1755

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-06-19 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

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