Norwich No. 10 / Norwic

Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
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Results: 11 records
design element - architectural - column
design element - architectural - window - octafoiled - 8
design element - motifs - floral - Tudor flower
design element - motifs - floral - Tudor rose
design element - patterns - crenellated
symbol - shield - 8
view of church exterior - southwest view
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of church interior - nave - looking west
view of font and cover
view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "The church of St Augustine, Norwich - C15 font. The font cover is topped by a carved head."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 October 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2103731] [accessed 7 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 09443NOR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Augustine
Church Patron Saints: St. Augustine of Hippo
Church Location: St Augustine's Street, Norwich, Norfolk NR3 3BY
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located on St. Augustine's 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.
Church Notes: original 14thC church;
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. Octagonal, C15". Baptismal font of the 15th century, Perpendicular style. The octagonal basin has vertical sides under a flat moulding, eac panel decorated with an octafoil window in which is set a shield [now blank]; the lower basin side has a band of crenellated pattern [some damage apparent in this area]; the chamfer of the underbowl is decorated with a combination of Tudor roses and Tudor flowers; the stem of the base is made up of a cluster of colonnettes with capitals and bases. Plain octagonal plinth. Wooden font cover, flat with a Jacobean style four-ribs-around-a-pivot finial.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.63675,
1.291579
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 38′ 12.3″ N,
1° 17′ 29.68″ E
UTM: 31U 384392 5833233
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