Caister-on-Sea No. 2 / Castor Holy Trinity / Castre
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
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design element - patterns - crenellated
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Image Source: digital photograph April 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/caister/caister.htm] [accessed 28 May 2014]
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symbol - shield - coat of arms - unidentified - in a quatrefoil - 4
Scene Description: at least one of them appears to contain and angel holding a scroll; they could be emblems rather than coats-or-arms [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph April 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/caister/caister.htm] [accessed 28 May 2014]
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design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - 4
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph April 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/caister/caister.htm] [accessed 28 May 2014]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph April 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/caister/caister.htm] [accessed 28 May 2014]
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design element - motifs - moulding
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Image Source: digital photograph April 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/caister/caister.htm] [accessed 28 May 2014]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph April 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/caister/caister.htm] [accessed 28 May 2014]
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view of church exterior - detail
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Early 13c nave with south aisle added about 1300"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 28 November 1992 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Caister on Sea Holy Trinity church S side [6953] 1992-11-28.jpg] [accessed 28 May 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph April 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/caister/caister.htm] [accessed 28 May 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph April 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/caister/caister.htm] [accessed 28 May 2014]
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design element - architectural - column - columns with capitals and bases - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph April 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/caister/caister.htm] [accessed 28 May 2014]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12561CAI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity
Church Address: Norwich Road, Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk, NR30 5JN
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5 km N of Great Yarmouth, on the coast
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of East Flegg
Additional Comments: moved font (originally from Eye, Suffolk) / painted font / white-washed font
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Caister [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG5112/caister/] [accessed 28 May 2014], neither of which mentions a church or cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The town was divided into 2 parishes, Castor Trinity, and Castor St. Edmund. The present font in this church is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Font. C15. Quite remarkably big. Stem with eight attached shafts. Bowl with alternation of quetrefoils containing shields with angels and quatrefoils pushed down in their square fields by two mouchettes joining up above them. Castellated rim. The font comes from Eye, Suffolk." [NB: the 'angels' noted above, at least one of them, appears on one of the shields, and not in the usual position holding the shields; some of the shields have other emblems]. Noted and illustrated in Knott (2006): "quite massive 15th century font […] brought here from Eye in Suffolk by the Victorians, apparently. it is rather badly whitewashed, but the castellated top is interesting, and reminiscent of the smaller font at Norwich St Lawrence." [cf. Index entry for Caister-on-Sea No.1]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church and font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1992
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 413624 5834087
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.649863, 1.723203
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 38′ 59.51″ N, 1° 43′ 23.53″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Études sur les fonts baptismaux de Saint-Barthélemy à Liège, Liège: Éditions du Céfal, 2006, p. 424-425
- Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.