Norwich No. 11 / Norwic / Heigham / Higham / Staunford
Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
Results: 20 records
B01: symbol - shield - emblem - Trinity
B02: design element - motifs - floral - Tudor rose
Scene Description: on at least two of the panels of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 10 June 1938 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norwich/extramuralmediaevalchurches.htm] [accessed 20 July 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
B03: symbol - shield - emblem - St. George
B04: design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose
B05: symbol - shield - emblem - Christ - the instruments of the Passion
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 10 June 1938 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norwich/extramuralmediaevalchurches.htm] [accessed 20 July 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
B06: design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose
B07: symbol - shield - cross - fleurdelisée
Scene Description: "cross moline" in Rye (1917)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 10 June 1938 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norwich/extramuralmediaevalchurches.htm] [accessed 20 July 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
B08: design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose
angel - cherub - 8
Scene Description: one at each corner of the lower side/underbowl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 10 June 1938 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norwich/extramuralmediaevalchurches.htm] [accessed 20 July 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 10 June 1938 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norwich/extramuralmediaevalchurches.htm] [accessed 20 July 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 8
Scene Description: one on each panel of the chamfer
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 10 June 1938 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norwich/extramuralmediaevalchurches.htm] [accessed 20 July 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: as seen on 10 June 1938
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 10 June 1938 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norwich/extramuralmediaevalchurches.htm] [accessed 20 July 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - west tower - northeast side
Scene Description: as seen on 15 August 1953
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 15 August 1953 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norwich/extramuralmediaevalchurches.htm] [accessed 20 July 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - west tower - southeast side
Scene Description: as seen on 8 February 2009
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 February 2009 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/heighambartholomew/heighambartholomew.htm] [accessed 20 July 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - chancel - piscina and sedilia
Scene Description: as seen on 10 June 1938
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 10 June 1938 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norwich/extramuralmediaevalchurches.htm] [accessed 20 July 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: as seen on 10 June 1938
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 10 June 1938 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norwich/extramuralmediaevalchurches.htm] [accessed 20 July 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font visible at the back, beneath the tower arch -- as seen on 10 June 1938
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 10 June 1938 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norwich/extramuralmediaevalchurches.htm] [accessed 20 July 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church interior - north aisle - looking east
Scene Description: as seen on 10 June 1938
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 10 June 1938 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norwich/extramuralmediaevalchurches.htm] [accessed 20 July 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church interior - south aisle - looking east
Scene Description: as seen on 10 June 1938
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 10 June 1938 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norwich/extramuralmediaevalchurches.htm] [accessed 20 July 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 10 June 1938 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norwich/extramuralmediaevalchurches.htm] [accessed 20 July 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
INFORMATION
FontID: 09442NOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Bartholomew Heigham [in ruins]
Church Patron Saints: St. Bartholomew
Church Location: Norwich NR2 4LZ [Grid Reference:TG 23354 07972]
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Heigham was a hamlet of Norwich, in the W side of the city
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Norwich]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, until WWII [cf. FontNotes]
Date: ca. 1509-1547?
Century and Period: 16th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church and font, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in June 1938, before the destruction of the church
Church Notes: original church mid-13thC -- Plunkett www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norwich/extramuralmediaevalchurches.htm] [accessed 20 July 2013] writes: "The district of Heigham, flanked by the city on the east and by Earlham on the west, grew during the 19c from a small village clustered around the church of St Bartholomew to a large residential suburb. This growth led to its division into several parishes of a more manageable size, served by the new churches of St Barnabas, St Philip, St Thomas and Holy Trinity. It was unfortunate that the "mother" church of St Bartholomew, with its continuous history going back over centuries, should have been the victim of an incendiary attack during the raid of 29th April 1942. As it stood at the time of its destruction it consisted of a square embattled western tower some 44 feet high, in which were two bells; a nave, without clerestory; north and south aisles; and a chancel."
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. Described in Rye (1915): "The font is late octagonal Perpendicular [...] and stands in westernmost arch of nave. Round the stem are four lions sejant. The upper part is supported by eight demi-angels. The panels are filled as follows:- 1, Emblem of the Trinity. 2, 4, 6 and 8, a Rose. 3, St. George's Cross. 5, Instruments of the Passion. 7, A cross moline. It has an octagonal crocketted wooden cover." Rye (ibid.) further notes: "Phipson calls it temp. Henry VIII." Baptismal font of the 15th or 16th century in the Perpendicular style; the octagonal basin has vertical sides, the panels decorated with large motifs [cf. supra]; the angles of the lower base/underbowl are decorated with cherub heads; the chamfer of the underbowl has a rosette on each panel; the base is octagonal and has protruding sedente lions on short stools; the inner well of the basin is lead lined. Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norwich/extramuralmediaevalchurches.htm] [accessed 20 July 2013] writes: "Most of the furnishings were modern, but the font, split to pieces in the raid, was of the old East Anglian type with four lions sejant around the stem. The eight panels bore the Emblem of the Trinity, Instruments of the Passion, St George's Cross, and a Cross of Moline, alternating with Tudor roses." The four shields on the alternating sides of the basin are of 'hanging' variety [carved as if they were hanging from a nail].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.639913, 1.274815
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 38′ 23.69″ N, 1° 16′ 29.33″ E
UTM: 31U 383266 5833612
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: inner basin is lead lined
REFERENCES
Rye, Walter, History of the Parish of Heigham in the City of Norwich, Norwich: Roberts & Co., 1917