Norwich No. 30 / Norwic

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. According to The Plunkett's History of Norwich Buildings [source below], "the small octagonal font was of some interest. Dating from the Perpendicular period, it had suffered a certain amount of mutilation at different times. The shaft was covered with shallow panels, once probably containing figures of saints, while the eight panels of the bowl had angels holdings shields. These formerly bore painted coats-of-arms, but all traces of these disappeared in 1845 when workmen scraped off numerous coats of whitewash and with them the remains of the figures around the stem". This same source informs that a German bombing raid of this area of Norwich took place "during the early hours of Saturday morning, 27th June 1942 [...when], high-explosive bombs caused the destruction of St. Julian's. A shapeless rubble was all that was left of the tower; of the remainder of the church only the north and east walls were left standing". Ten years later St. Julian's was rebuilt and "a fifteenth century font brought from the redundant All Saints' church took the place of that which had been broken beyond repair". [source: www.the-plunketts.freeserve.co.uk/KingStreet.htm]. Pevsner & Wilson (1999), however, in their entry for Chedgrave, write: "Font. Brought from St Julian, Norwich, C15 but re-cut in 1845."