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angel - demi-figure - holding book - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 20 May 2012 by Brokentaco [www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/12256698886/] [accessed 26 May 2014]

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design element - architectural - buttress - 8

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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 20 May 2012 by Brokentaco [www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/12256698886/] [accessed 26 May 2014]

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design element - architectural - niche - trefoil-headed - 8

Scene Description: there are little platforms where small statues would probably be placed

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 20 May 2012 by Brokentaco [www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/12256698886/] [accessed 26 May 2014]

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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view of church exterior - north portal

Scene Description: Norman work

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 7 September 1975 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Clippesby St Peter's church Norman N door [5461] 1975-09-07.jpg] [accessed 26 May 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - north view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Two 13c lancets in nave wall, and Norman round tower with octagonal top"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 7 September 1975 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Clippesby St Peter's church north side [5463] 1975-09-07.jpg] [accessed 26 May 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - south porch

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Norman chevron ornament built into south porch doorway"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 7 September 1975 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Clippesby St Peter's church Norman door [5462] 1975-09-07.jpg] [accessed 26 May 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken June 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/587982] [accessed 26 May 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font visible at the west end of the nave

Image Source: digital photograph taken June 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/587984] [accessed 26 May 2014]

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view of font

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2012 by Brokentaco [www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/12256698886/] [accessed 26 May 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12562CLI

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Church Lane, Clippesby, Norfolk, NR29 3BJ

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off the B1152, Acle to Martham road, in the Norfolk Broads National Park, near Gt. Yarmouth

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of West Flegg

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

Century and Period: 15th century?, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in September 1975

Church Notes: round-tower church

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There are seven entries for Clippesby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG4214/clippesby/] [accessed 26 May 2014], but neither mentions a church or priest in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "Osbert de Salicibus, alias de Willows, was lord in the reign of Henry II. and in the 9th of King John, Henry was lord and patron of the church of Clippesby, (as the jury find,) and that his father Osbert presented the last rector [...] The Church is a rectory dedicated to St. Peter. It is therefore likely that there was a church here by the mid-12th century, if not earlier, as indicated by the Norman tower. The present font here is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Font. C15. Octagonal, panelled stem, demi-figures of angels against the underside of the bowl, bearing books." The octagonal basin has blank side panels that may have been originally painted, separated by half-buttresses; the sides of the octagonal stem have simple tracery; the lower base is octagonal and narrow, moulded. The wooden cover is round and has a flat Latin cross handle; appears modern. The whole is raised on an octagonal plinth. [NB: the tower has both Saxon -now covered- and Norman windows, but we have no information on the font of the early church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 40′ 28.05″ N, 1° 35′ 27.37″ E

UTM: 31U 403587 5837027

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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

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