Thornham nr. Hunstanton / Tornham

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B01: symbol - shield - emblem - St. Andrew

Scene Description: painted on one of the sides of the basin [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 June 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/833345] [accessed 9 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

B02: symbol - shield - emblem - St. George

Scene Description: painted on one of the sides of the basin [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thornham/thornham.htm] [accessed 31 August 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B03: symbol - shield - emblem - the instruments of the Passion - lance - sponge, etc.

Scene Description: painted on one of the sides of the basin [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thornham/thornham.htm] [accessed 31 August 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B04: symbol - shield - emblem - See of Ely

Scene Description: three ducal coronets on the shield at the right; painted on one of the sides of the basin [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thornham/thornham.htm] [accessed 31 August 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B05: symbol - shield - emblem - the instruments of the Passion - cross, crown of thorns, etc.

Scene Description: painted on one of the sides of the basin [cf. Font notes]

B06: symbol - shield - emblem - East Anglia

Scene Description: three royal crowns; painted on one of the sides of the basin [cf. Font notes]

B07: symbol - shield - emblem - Eucharist

Scene Description: three chalices; painted on one of the sides of the basin [cf. Font notes]

design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with bases - 8

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thornham/thornham.htm] [accessed 31 August 2009]

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design element - motifs - tracery

Scene Description: forming the heads of the arches for the columns of the stem and lower base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thornham/thornham.htm] [accessed 31 August 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior

Scene Description: Photo caption: "The chancel over-restored in 1877"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 1 October 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/T/Thornham All Saints church south side [7277] 1995-10-01.jpg] [accessed 9 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Early English"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 1 October 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/T/Thornham All Saints church south door [7278] 1995-10-01.jpg] [accessed 9 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font at the far [west] end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thornham/thornham.htm] [accessed 9 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thornham/thornham.htm] [accessed 31 August 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: B&W photograph in the Frith Collection

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of font and cover in context - southwest side

Scene Description: from the west end, looking northeast

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 June 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/833345] [accessed 9 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of font and cover in context - west side

Scene Description: at the west end, looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2005 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/317241] [accessed 9 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of stoup

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thornham/thornham.htm] [accessed 31 August 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 10019THO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: High St / Church St, Thornham, Norfolk, PE36 6LY

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located on the A149, 5-6 km NE of Hunstanton

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Smethdon

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 15th century [basin only] [composite font], Late Medieval

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this church and font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in October 1995

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Thornham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF7343/thornham/] [accessed 9 April 2014], but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is dedicated to All-Saints, and was formerly a rectory in the patronage of the Bishops of Norwich [...] and was appropriated to the Bishop's table [...] The church is a large regular pile, and has a nave, north and south isle, with a chancel covered with lead, and at the west end a large square tower, but the upper part is fallen down, and now lies open, in which there were 4 bells. [...] Robert Buttamund, occurs rector 1216. [...] Benedict, occurs vicar in 1286." [NB: the change from rectory to vicarage appears to hev taken place between 1281 and 1286]. Farrer (1887 [1885?]) identifies the coats of arms on this font: "Shields on the Font. III. A saltire gules, St. Andrew. -- IV. Gules, a cross argent. -- V. Spear and reed, with sponge, in saltire between two scourges, Shield of the Passion. -- VI. Gules, three ducal coronets or. See of Ely. -- VII. Cross, with crown of thorns. Shield of the Crucifixion. -- VIII. Three crowns {East Anglia, Azure, three crowns or.) -- IX. Three covered cups, Shield of the Sacrament. This is much worn, but I think this identification is correct." [NB: these seem to account only for seven emblems]. The Saxonshore Benefice web site [www.saxonshorebenefice.fsnet.co.uk] informs: "The octagonal font [...] is 15th century. The panels contain painted shields. The cross of St. Andrew. the cross of St. George, the Instruments of the Passion, the three coronets of the See of Ely, three crowns for East Anglia, and three chalices for the Blessed Sacrament." Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999) who comment on the painted emblem and heraldic devices on the shields; they also note that the base is a 1905 replacement [NB: the 'base' referred to is probably the large plinth on which the font stands; the pedestal base appears original]. Noted and illustrated in Knott (2005). The font consists of an octagonal basin decorated as indicated in the source above, raised on an octagonal pedestal base with attached columns, and an octagonal moulded base. A wooden cover, probably of the 17th or 18th century is on the font: octagonal flat base with radiated ribs around a central pivot in the Jacobean manner of font cover construction. Knott (ibid.) illustrates a holy-water stoup in the porch; it may be medieval [no seprarte listing].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.96075, 0.57988

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 57′ 38.7″ N, 0° 34′ 47.57″ E

UTM: 31U 337451 5870645

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-18th century?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf.FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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

Farrer, Edmund, The Church Heraldry of Norfolk, a description of all coats of arms […] now to be found in the county […], Norwich: A.H. Goose and Co., 1885-1893

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-08-31 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999