Norton nr. Bury St. Edmunds
Image copyright © Virginia Raguin, 2008
Permission received (e-mail in file)
Results: 20 records
B01: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion - with scroll
Scene Description: the scroll may originaly have had the name of the Evangelist painted on it
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.simonknott.co.uk/suffolkchurches/norton.htm
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B02: animal - bird - pelican - plucking its breast - feeding its young
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1080401002_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Virginia Raguin, 2008
Image Source: digtal image by Virginia Raguin, in http://www.holycross.edu/departments/visarts/projects/anglia/norton/norton.html [accessed 30 March 2008]
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B03: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew - symbol - angel - with scroll
Scene Description: the scroll may originaly have had the name of the Evangelist painted on it
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.simonknott.co.uk/suffolkchurches/norton.htm
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B04: animal - fabulous animal or monster - griffin
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1080401003_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Virginia Raguin, 2008
Image Source: digtal image by Virginia Raguin, in http://www.holycross.edu/departments/visarts/projects/anglia/norton/norton.html [accessed 30 March 2008]
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B05: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Luke - symbol - winged bull - with scroll
Scene Description: the scroll may originaly have had the name of the Evangelist painted on it
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Virginia Raguin, 2008
Image Source: digtal image by Virginia Raguin, in http://www.holycross.edu/departments/visarts/projects/anglia/norton/norton.html [accessed 30 March 2008]
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B06: animal - fabulous animal or monster - eagle - two-headed eagle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Virginia Raguin, 2008
Image Source: digtal image by Virginia Raguin, in http://www.holycross.edu/departments/visarts/projects/anglia/norton/norton.html [accessed 30 March 2008]
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B07: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - symbol - eagle - with scroll
Scene Description: the scroll may originaly have had the name of the Evangelist painted on it
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Virginia Raguin, 2008
Image Source: digtal image by Virginia Raguin, in http://www.holycross.edu/departments/visarts/projects/anglia/norton/norton.html [accessed 30 March 2008]
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B08: animal - fabulous animal or monster - unicorn
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Virginia Raguin, 2008
Image Source: digtal image by Virginia Raguin, in http://www.holycross.edu/departments/visarts/projects/anglia/norton/norton.html [accessed 30 March 2008]
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B09: design element - motifs - floral
Scene Description: a trefoiled flower over the hind quarters of the unicorn
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Virginia Raguin, 2008
Image Source: digtal image by Virginia Raguin, in http://www.holycross.edu/departments/visarts/projects/anglia/norton/norton.html [accessed 30 March 2008]
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B10: design element - motifs - floral - flower - square flower
Scene Description: at least two of them in the frame of the panel of the unicorn
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Virginia Raguin, 2008
Image Source: digtal image by Virginia Raguin, in http://www.holycross.edu/departments/visarts/projects/anglia/norton/norton.html [accessed 30 March 2008]
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BU01: angel - cherub - 4
Scene Description: at the angles of the underbowl, alternating with winged hearts
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.simonknott.co.uk/suffolkchurches/norton.htm
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BU02: symbol - heart - winged heart - 4
Scene Description: at the angles of the underbowl, alternating with cherubs
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Virginia Raguin, 2008
Image Source: digtal image by Virginia Raguin, in http://www.holycross.edu/departments/visarts/projects/anglia/norton/norton.html [accessed 30 March 2008]
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BU03: design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Virginia Raguin, 2008
Image Source: digtal image by Virginia Raguin, in http://www.holycross.edu/departments/visarts/projects/anglia/norton/norton.html [accessed 30 March 2008]
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LB01: design element - patterns - tracery - varied
Scene Description: on the sides of the pedestal base, between the figures
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Virginia Raguin, 2008
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LBF01: human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose - with shield - blank shield
Scene Description: at least one of them at the angle of the pedestal base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Virginia Raguin, 2008
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LBF02: animal - mammal - bull? - holding blank shield
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Virginia Raguin, 2008
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LBF03: human figure - grotesque or fantastic - holding blank shield
Scene Description: with a ball at its feet
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Virginia Raguin, 2008
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LBF04: animal - mammal - goat - holding blank shield
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.simonknott.co.uk/suffolkchurches/norton.htm
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Virginia Raguin, 2008
Image Source: digtal image by Virginia Raguin, in http://www.holycross.edu/departments/visarts/projects/anglia/norton/norton.html [accessed 30 March 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail in file)
INFORMATION
FontID: 11468NOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located on the A1088, about 10 km E of Bury St. Edmunds
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century (early?), Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: Raguin [cf. FontNotes] notes the fonts at Bures and Wissington, in Suffolk. and the ones at Litcham and Horsham, in Norfolk
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Suffolk Churches, and to professor Virginia Raguin, of www.holycross.edu/departments/visarts, for the information on and photographs of this font
Church Notes: This church has a very good set of misericords and bench ends
Font Notes:
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Described in Parker (1855): "This is a very fine P[erpendicular] font, elaborately sculptured, with the evangelistic symbols on four of the faces; the others have the pelican, unicorn, and double-headed eagle; it is supported by four rudely-carved figures." Described and illustrated in Knott (2007?): "15th century font. It is in superb condition [...] Virtually all that has suffered is the tip of St. Matthew's [angel's] nose. Other faces show the other three evangelists, and there are also a pelican in her piety and a unicorn -- a most unusual subject on a font, but a symbol in various ways of both Christ and the Virgin Mary. Beneath the bowl, reliefs bulge; angels and Marian hearts, and beneath them the supporters include a wodewose and a very strange looking goat. Aidan Semmens, webmaster of www.sillysuffolk.co.uk, suggests it might be connected with the heraldic symbol of the Bardwell family, who were the lords of the manor here at the time of the rebuilding; their shield is also in the north aisle." A full breakdown of the imagery on the font by professor Virginia Raguin can be found at http://www.holycross.edu/departments/visarts/projects/anglia/norton/norton.html [accessed 27 March 2008]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, plywood?
Apparatus: no
Notes: a thin plywood (?) cover
REFERENCES
Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2006-01-28 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855