Colby / Colebei / Coleby

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B01: Virgin Mary - Madonna and Christ-child - Virgin crowned - enthroned

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph August 2005 by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/colby/colby.htm

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B02: Apostle or saint - St. Giles? (or hunter-with dog scene?)

Scene Description: perhaps St. Hubert, the patron saint of hunters? [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph August 2005 by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/colby/colby.htm

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B03: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew - symbol - angel - with scroll

Scene Description: on the left side

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph August 2005 by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/colby/colby.htm

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B04: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion - with scroll

Scene Description: on the right side

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph August 2005 by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/colby/colby.htm

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B05: blank

Scene Description: still cemented over? [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph August 2005 by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/colby/colby.htm

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B06: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Luke - symbol - winged bull - with scroll

B07: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - symbol - eagle

Scene Description: visible here on the left panel [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph August 2005 by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/colby/colby.htm

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B08: human figure - kneeling - donor? - 2

Scene Description: in the centre panel

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph August 2005 by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/colby/colby.htm

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

Scene Description: arches or windows on the sides of the stem

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph August 2005 by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/colby/colby.htm

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design element - architectural - buttress - 8

Scene Description: at the angles of the stem

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph August 2005 by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/colby/colby.htm

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: two with a blank space between them make the lower decoration of the underbowl chamfer

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph August 2005 by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/colby/colby.htm

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph August 2005 by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/colby/colby.htm

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design element - motifs - vine

Scene Description: all around the upper underbowl side

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph August 2005 by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/colby/colby.htm

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view of basin

Scene Description: left=donors? - centre=Madonna and Child enthroned - right=hunter? / St. Giles?

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph August 2005 by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/colby/colby.htm

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view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital photograph August 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/colby/colby.htm] [accessed 29 May 2013]

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view of church interior - detail

Scene Description: one of the brass insets of the church floor

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph August 2005 by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/colby/colby.htm

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view of font and cover

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph August 2005 by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/colby/colby.htm

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view of font and cover

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph August 2005 by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/colby/colby.htm

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the nave, looking west

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph August 2005 by Simon Knott in www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/colby/colby.htm

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11677COL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Giles

Church Patron Saints: St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]

Church Location: Long Lane, Colby, Norfolk NR11 7EE

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A140, about 8 km NNE of Aylsham, 14 km S of Cromer

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of South Erpingham

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

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for the information on and photographs of this font and church.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The church is dedicated to St. Giles [...] the steeple is round [...] The Rectors here that I have met with [i.e., first recorded] are, 1314, Thomas de Preston". Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports: "the font is elaborately sculptured". James (1930) notes: "At Colby is a font with the Evangelists, and also (quite uncommon) the Virgin and Child throned, a man and woman kneeling, a kneeling man with a hatchet over his shoulder, a dog, and a scroll." Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1997). Knott (2005) describes it as late 15th century, and topped by the Georgians in a rural manner", obviously referring to the 18th-century wooden font cover. Knott (ibid.) points out that the font "is set curiously [...] so that no panel faces east, south, west or north, rather, being off centre. [...] It may have been moved, but the pedestal it stands on does the same thing, and it appears original." This same author has problems accepting the claim that the scene that includes a man with a hatchet and a dog be a representation of the legend of St. Giles protecting the hind, though he does acknowledge that the dedication of the church to this saint and the presence of his relic in the church at one point may both weigh in making such an identification; the other sides include a reclining pair, whom Knott suggests "are almost certainly the two donors of the font", four panels with the symbols of the Evangelists, and an eighth panel "still cemented over". The octagonal stem is decorated with buttresses at the angles and with trefoil windows on the sides, and Knott (ibid.) adds that there are several original brass insets on the church floor near the plinth of the font. [NB: we have no information on the font from the original church here].

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 385406 5855381

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 18th century / Georgian

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal in shape, rises from the rim on eight thin supports, the top flat and plain

REFERENCES

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

James, M. R., Suffolk and Norfolk, London, Toronto: Dent & Sons, 1930

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2006-04-14 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997