Shelton nr. Diss / Sceltuna / Schelton

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angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - East Anglia?

Scene Description: three crowns [cf. Font notes] -- seen here in the east-most [left] of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 October 2008 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1029285] [accessed 15 September 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - Eucharist

Scene Description: three chalices [cf. Font notes] -- seen here in the centre panel of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/shelton/shelton.htm]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - Trinity

Scene Description: seen here on the right panel of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 October 2008 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1029285] [accessed 15 September 2015]

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angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - the instruments of the Passion

Scene Description: seen here on the right side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/shelton/shelton.htm]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

angel - head - 8

Scene Description: one at each angle of the upper level of the underbowl chamfer

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 October 2008 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1029285] [accessed 15 September 2015]

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animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant - 4

Scene Description: alternating with buttresses on the sides of the stem

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/shelton/shelton.htm]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant - 4

Scene Description: on alternating basin sides

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 October 2008 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1029285] [accessed 15 September 2015]

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design element - architectural - buttress - 4

Scene Description: alternating with sitting lions on the sides of the stem

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 October 2008 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1029285] [accessed 15 September 2015]

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 8

Scene Description: one on each side of the lower volume of the underbowl chamfer

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 October 2008 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1029285] [accessed 15 September 2015]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 October 2008 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1029295] [accessed 15 September 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 October 2008 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1029306] [accessed 15 September 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 October 2008 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1029312] [accessed 15 September 2015]

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view of font - north side

Scene Description: the brick construction of the plinth is visible here

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/shelton/shelton.htm]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font in context

Scene Description: at the west end of the nave

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 October 2008 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1029309] [accessed 15 September 2015]

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view of font in context

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 29 May 1939 by Georges Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Shelton St Mary's church font south side [3041] 1939-05-29.jpg] [accessed 18 October 2015]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of font in context - west side

Scene Description: church interior, looking east

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/shelton/shelton.htm]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 11680SHE

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Low Road, Shelton, Norfolk, NR15 2SD

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A140, about 15 km NNE of Diss

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Depwade

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, centre of the nave, opposite the S door

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font / heraldic font

Cognate Fonts: Other such fonts in East Anglia (e.g., Saxmundham, in Suffolk)

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for the information on and photograph of this font and church. We are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this font, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in May 1939

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for this Shelton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TM2291/shelton/] [accessed 15 September 2015]; one of the entries, in the lordship of Roger Bigot and [King] William in 1086, mentions a church and 0.12 hides of church lands in it; the second, in the lordship of Durand in 1086, includes a church and 0.12 hides of church lands in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "This town in the Confessor's time [...] had a church and 16 acres of glebe [...] The Church is dedicated to St. Mary [,..] The present fabrick was built by Sir Ralf Shelton, Knt. [...] and is a fine uniform brick building, having a nave, two isles, and chancel leaded, a square tower, and one bell." Blomefield (ibid.) names "Gilbert de Belawe" (South mediety) and "Henry de Wendling" as first recorded rectors here, in 1305 and 1302 respectively, and "James Herbert" as rector of the whole rectory in 1445, when the two medieties were united. The present font here is noted in James (1930): "The font is of a type common in our counties, having lions on four faces, alternating with angels holding shields." [NB: a similar, though not identical, font can be found at Saxmundham, Suffolk]. Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999), who mention "four demi-figures of angels holding shields with the Instruments of the Passion, the symbol of the Trinity, three crowns and three chalices." Illustrated in Knott (2005). Octagonal mounted baptismal of a type common in East Anglia: the sides of the octagonal basin are deeply carved with sedente-regardant lions alternating with angels holding shields charged with coats-of-arms; angel heads at the angles of the upper level underbowl chamfer while the lower level has a rosette on each side; the stem of the base has sedente lions alternating with buttresses on the sides; octagonal plinth with kneeling stone extension, made of brick.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.472261, 1.268677

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 28′ 20.14″ N, 1° 16′ 7.24″ E

UTM: 31U 382403 5814976

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

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: 2006-04-15 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

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