Norwich No. 9 / Norwic / Lakenham
Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2004
Image and permission received (e-mail of 1/4/2004)
Results: 3 records
design element - motifs - tracery - Gothic
Scene Description: different one on each panel
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 - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2011 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2570288] [accessed 7 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
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)
INFORMATION
FontID: 09444NOR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Alban Lakenham
Church Patron Saints: St. Alban [aka Albanus]
Church Location: Grove Walk, Norwich, NR1 2QF
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: St Albans stands at the corner of Grove Walk and Eleanor Road
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this font, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1937-1938.
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. Baptismal font of the 15th century, Perpendicular style. The octagonal basin has vertical sides, each panel decorated with a sample of Gothic tracery [some panels are very eroded; the upper side of one side shows damage consistent with the removal of a cover staple]; shallow graded chamfer; plain octagonal stem of the base; lower base splays slightly and has a single scotia as decoration. Wooden cover with eight-ribs-around-a-pivot frame, with round finial. The plinth is octagonal, one of the sides extended rectangularly as kneeling stone. [NB: Knott (2008) notes that the font from Knettishall, Suffolk, "went to Lakenham"; is this the one? -- the total lack of ornamentation of the base and the damage to the basin sides may suggest the font has been tampered with at some time in its history].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.618992,
1.289802
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 37′ 8.37″ N,
1° 17′ 23.29″ E
UTM: 31U 384225 5831261
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: unknown / 18th century?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-08-18 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
