Lamas / Lamers / Lammas

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angel - cherub - 8

Image Source: digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/lamas/lamas.htm] [accessed 22 May 2013]

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design element - architectural - buttress - crocketed pinnacle - 4

Image Source: digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/lamas/lamas.htm] [accessed 22 May 2013]

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design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose - 4

Scene Description: alternating with four blank shields

Image Source: digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/lamas/lamas.htm] [accessed 22 May 2013]

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design element - motifs - floral - varied - 8

Scene Description: square flowers, etc.

Image Source: digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/lamas/lamas.htm] [accessed 22 May 2013]

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symbol - shield - hanging shield - blank - 4

Scene Description: alternating with four Tudor roses

Image Source: digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/lamas/lamas.htm] [accessed 22 May 2013]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/lamas/lamas.htm] [accessed 22 May 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/lamas/lamas.htm] [accessed 22 May 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font at the west end of the nave, centre aisle

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12687LAM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: The Street, Buxton, Norfolk NR10 5JH

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Lamas is adjacent to Buxton, 5 km NNW of Coltishall

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of South Erpingham

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, beneath the tower, by the organ

Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes of this parish: "at the Conqueror's survey it was part of Buxton [...] It was parted from Buxton very early, and became a separat manor, and a church was consequently erected on it, it being now divided from Buxton by the river that runs between them [...] It was first granted by Ralf de Bellafago or Beaufoe, to Osbern, who his said to have founded the church, and to have given the advowson to Holm abbey, to which it was confirmed by King Henry I. in 1177 [...] The Church is dedicated to St. Andrew, whose image stood in a tabernacle in the chancel, in the east wall on the north side of the altar [...] There is a low square tower and four bells; the church hath no isles, and is thatched, as is the chancel, the south porch is tiled." Blomefield (ibid.) names "Robert Brown" as first recorded rector here, in 1328 [NB: but the church existed probably since between 1066 and 1086 [cf. supra]]. Thomas (1846) mentions a font here in reference to other furnishings: "Six only remain of the ancient benches, splayed off at the font ". Lewis' Directory of 1848 reports: "the font is handsomely sculptured". Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1997) with 15th-century date. Illustrated in Knott (2005). The octagonal basin has deeply-carved panels containing four shields alternating with four large flowers; on the upper underbowl volume are angels; on the lower, flowers; a buttress on every other side of the octagonal stem; moulded lower base. On a modern octagonal plinth. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.760245, 1.326538

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 45′ 36.88″ N, 1° 19′ 35.54″ E

UTM: 31U 387076 5846913

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2007-02-15 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

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

Thomas, Caddy, Sketches for an ecclesiology of the deaneries of Sparham and Taverham, in Norfolk; together with some summary details of Ingworth Deanery, in the same county, Norwich; London: Jarrold and Sons; Hamilton Adams and Co., 1846