Gunthorpe / Gunathorp / Gunethorp / Gunthorp

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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol - 4

Scene Description: on the left panel is Mark's lion; Matthew's angel on the right

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Apostle or saint - seated - 4

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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angel - showing wings - 8

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coat of arms - unidentified - 4

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes for a description of the emblems]

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design element - architectural - column - 8

Scene Description: at the angles

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unidentified

Scene Description: probably figures on the alternate sides; only fragments left at the bottom now

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "The tower is 15c and has a chequered parapet"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013

Image Source: B&W photography taken 6 March 1994 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/G/Gunthorpe St Mary's church from SW [7114] 1994-03-06.jpg] [accessed 23 January 2014]

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view of church interior - chancel and east end

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the top of the font and the cover are visible on the right (north) side, by the tower arch

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12638GUN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Hall Lane, Gunthorpe, Norfolk NR24 2PA
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 8 km WSW of Holt
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Holt
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
There are three entries for Gunthorpe in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG0135/gunthorpe/] [accessed 23 January 2014], but neither mentions a church or cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Mary [...] Osgotus de Gunthorp was rector in 1106" [NB: there is no earlier reference in Blomefield (ibid.) to a church here, which may indicate that St. Mary's was founded between 1086 and 1106, always with the caveat that the Domesday survey does not necessarily record all churches and clerics in its entries]. The present font is noted in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848: "the font is curiously sculptured". Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Small C15 piece. Octagonal. Bowl with four seated figures and the signs of the Evangelists. Well carved." Described and illustrated in Knott (2007). The octagonal basin has colonnettes at the angles; the sides themselves alternate the four seated figures [Saints? Fathers of the Church?] with the symbols of the Evangelists in deeply-carved panels; angels with spread wings at the angles of the underbowl chamfer; octagonal stem has charged shields at alternate sides, the others blank now but appear to have had figures on them to judge by the fragments remaining at the bottom; plain square lower base. On an octagonal plinth with kneeling extension. The wooden cover is plain, octagonal and flat; appears modern. The four coats of arms on the base shields are described in Farrer (1887 [1885?]): "XI. A bend {Swathing ? Azure, a bend argent.) -- XII. A cross flory {Sefoule, Vert, a cross patonce or. — Bl. Norf, vii. 206. Papworth has, "Argent, a cross patonce vert'*); impaling, A bend. Thomas Davy of Gunthorp married Elizabeth, daughter of George Sefoule of Waterden. -- XIII. Per fesse, 1, Sefoule; 2, A fesse dancette between three escallops {Wilhy or Welby of Gunthorpe, Bale, and Hindringham. Sable, a fesse dancett^e between three escallops argent. See p. 374) ; impaling, A bend. -- XIV. Quarterly :—l, Sefoule; 2, A bend; 3, Wilby ; 4, A chevron engrailed between three annulets (Davy, Sable, a chevron engrailed ermine between three annulets argent.)"

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.877244, 0.988855
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 52′ 38.08″ N, 0° 59′ 19.88″ E
UTM: 31U 364656 5860509

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810
Farrer, Edmund, The Church Heraldry of Norfolk, a description of all coats of arms […] now to be found in the county […], Norwich: A.H. Goose and Co., 1885-1893
Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-06-23 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