Norwich No. 10 / Norwic
Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
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Results: 11 records
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]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2004
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 - octafoiled - 8
Scene Description: each with a shield in it
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2004
Image Source: Jonathan Plunkett (from George Plunkett's collection)
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 1/4/2004)
symbol - shield - 8
Scene Description: each one set in an octafoil window
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2004
Image Source: Jonathan Plunkett (from George Plunkett's collection)
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 1/4/2004)
design element - patterns - crenellated
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2004
Image Source: Jonathan Plunkett (from George Plunkett's collection)
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design element - motifs - floral - Tudor flower
Scene Description: alternating with Tudor roses
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2004
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
Scene Description: alternating with Tudor flowers
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2004
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 - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 October 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2103701] [accessed 7 September 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 October 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2103712] [accessed 7 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font and cover visible at the west end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 October 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2103729] [accessed 7 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
design element - architectural - column
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2004
Image Source: Jonathan Plunkett (from George Plunkett's collection)
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 1/4/2004)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 09443NOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Augustine
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Augustine of Hippo
Church Notes: original 14thC church;
Church Address: St Augustine's Street, Norwich, Norfolk NR3 3BY
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on St. Augustine's St.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
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. 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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this font, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1937-1938.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 384392 5833233
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.63675, 1.291579
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 38′ 12.3″ N, 1° 17′ 29.68″ E
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, p. 232