Horsham St. Faith / Horsham / Newton St. Faith

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R01: design element - patterns - crenellated

Scene Description: partially covered here by the lower frame of the font cover

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 October 2001 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/309010] [accessed 15 April 2014]

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angel - 8

Scene Description: one at each of the angles of the underbowl

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 October 2001 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/309010] [accessed 15 April 2014]

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angel - demi-figure - holding shield - blank - in an octafoil - in a circle - in a square - 8

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 October 2001 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/309010] [accessed 15 April 2014]

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animal - head - 4

Scene Description: on the sides of the lower base, alternating with quatrefoil windows; some appear damaged

Image Source: engraving by J. Basire in Repton (1812)

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - cinquefoiled arches - 8

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 October 2001 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/309010] [accessed 15 April 2014]

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design element - architectural - window - quatrefoiled - 4

Scene Description: on the sides of the lower base, alternating with animal heads

Image Source: engraving by J. Basire in Repton (1812)

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design element - motifs - floral - 8

Scene Description: one on each of the panels of the underbowl

Image Source: engraving by J. Basire in Repton (1812)

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design element - patterns - crenellated

Scene Description: at the top endf of the stem

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 October 2001 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/309010] [accessed 15 April 2014]

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view of building exterior

Scene Description: north view of the former refectory of the priory -- Photo caption: "The remains of the priory, founded in 1107 by Robert Fitzwalter of Caen and Sybilla his wife"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 2 June 1960 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Horsham St Faith Priory former refectory N [4555] 1960-06-02.jpg] [accessed 15 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 16 July 1933 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Horsham St Faith church from SE [B629] 1933-07-16.jpg] [accessed 15 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the side of the font and cover is partially visible in the foreground, left side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2001 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/309008] [accessed 15 April 2014]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2001 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/309010] [accessed 15 April 2014]

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view of font cover

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 October 2001 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/309010] [accessed 15 April 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09782HOR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of Blessed Virgin St. Mary and St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Andrew

Church Location: Church Street, Horsham St Faith and Newton St Faith, Norfolk NR10 3JJ

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 10 km N of Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Taverham

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, near the tower arch [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church and priory taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1933 and 1960

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Horsham in the Domesday survey [fol. 155v], but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. In his entry for Horsham Blomefield (1805-1810) refers to a claim involving the prior of Horsham St. Faith in 1269, but gives no information on the church itself; this church is mentioned in Blomefield's entry for Newton (ibid.), a hamlet of Horsham: "The church of Horsham was many centuries past a rectory, dedicated to St. Faith the virgin, and appropriated by the grant of Robert de Cadomo (son of Walter) and Sibilla his wife, to the priory of Horsham St. Faith's". The present font here is described and illustrated with an engraving by J. Basire in Repton (1812) as a baptismal font "from about the reign of King Henry the Sixth to that of Henry the Eighth" [i.e., 1422-1509+]. In Thomas (1846): "Font. This fine example of the Perpendicular style has the sunken panels on its bowl charged with figures clasping shields within polyfoil circles; there is a crenelled brattishing. The stem --like the bowl octagonal-- is inarched with cinquefoil panels; the capital presents angular figures as above, with square flowers in the interstices, the low square base grotesque heads over its corners. The whole stands on a large platform in advance of the belfry arch, having been removed from by the north west pier, where it lay hidden behind that ever-recurring deformity --a graduated choral pue! This font has been thoroughly restored at charge of the present incumbent, and will promptly resume its place in the holy ritual; although a drain has, in its new position, been unfortunately omitted ." Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1997) as an octagonal font of the 15th century "totally recut" decorated with four lamb heads on the lower base. This source notes also the wooden cover, "a fine Jacobean piece". The font consists of an octagonal basin the vertical sides of which are decorated with octafoil windows that contain an angel holding a shield; the underbowl is decorated with angels at the angles and large floral motifs on the panels; each side of the octagonal stem has a cinquefoil arch, and the lower base has alternating animal (lamb?) heads and quatrefoil windows; the upper rim of the basin is chamfered and decorated with crenellated pattern, as is the top of the stem.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.688811, 1.279067

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 41′ 19.72″ N, 1° 16′ 44.64″ E

UTM: 31U 383684 5839044

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-century?

Material: wood,

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810

Repton, John Adey, "Specimens of Fonts, collected from different Churches, by John Adey Repton, Esq. F.A.S. In a Letter addressed to Craven Ord, Esq. F.R.S. and F.A.S.V.P., read 12th March, 1807", XVI, Archaeologia, 1812, pp. 335-337 and pl. XXXVII-XLV; r["References"]

Thomas, Caddy, Sketches for an ecclesiology of the deaneries of Sparham and Taverham, in Norfolk; together with some summary details of Ingworth Deanery, in the same county, Norwich; London: Jarrold and Sons; Hamilton Adams and Co., 1846

Tymms, Samuel, Family Topographer, being a compendious account of the antient and present state of the counties of England: vol. IV, Oxford circuit, London: Nichols & Son, 1834