Moulton St. Michael / Great Moulton / Moulton Magna / Muletuna

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Results: 9 records

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angel - cherub - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott, 2005 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/greatmoulton/greatmoulton.htm] [accessed 20 February 2007]

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animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant - 4

Scene Description: alternating with large Tudor roses

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott, 2005 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/greatmoulton/greatmoulton.htm] [accessed 20 February 2007]

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

Scene Description: alternating with four sedente lions

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott, 2005 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/greatmoulton/greatmoulton.htm] [accessed 20 February 2007]

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 8

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott, 2005 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/greatmoulton/greatmoulton.htm] [accessed 20 February 2007]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Tower rebuilt c1887 but it retains the Norman tower arch"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 16 August 1996 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/M/Moulton St Michael's church from SE [7385] 1996-08-16.jpg] [accessed 7 May 2014]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott, 2005 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/greatmoulton/greatmoulton.htm] [accessed 20 February 2007]

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view of church interior - piscina

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Knopped Norman pillar piscina. SE corner of chancel"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 27 August 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/M/Moulton St Michael's church pillar piscina [5718] 1976-08-27.jpg] [accessed 7 May 2014]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott, 2005 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/greatmoulton/greatmoulton.htm] [accessed 20 February 2007]

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view of font and cover - southeast side

Scene Description: Photo caption: "East Anglian type. The S, SE and E sides. The bowl has four flowers and the signs of the evangelists in its panels"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 16 August 1996 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/M/Moulton St Michael's church font [7386] 1996-08-16.jpg] [accessed 7 May 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12720MOU

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael

Church Location: Church Road, Great Moulton, Norfolk, NR15 2LD

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off the A140, 5 km WSW of Long Stratton

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Depwade

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font

Cognate Fonts: many such in the region

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches, for his photographs of church and font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are five entries for Moulton [St. Michael] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TM1690/moulton-st-michael/] [accessed 7 May 2014], two of which report a church and churchlands in each. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The church is dedicated to St. Michael", and names "Jeffry de Halcote" as first recorded rector of it, in 1303. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports "a font elaborately sculptured" in this church. Noted and illustrated in Knott (2006): "The font is a grand 15th century one with lions and fleurons on the bowl. The stem has been vandalised, and when Mortlock came this way the lions around the base had been replaced with plaster ones. But these are now gone." Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "C15. Octagonal, with four flowers and the signs of the Evangelists against the bowl." The underbowl chamfer has two levels: the upper one is decorated with the usual angels heads at the angles; the lower one, following the usual arrangement, has rosettes on the sides. Quadrangular plinth with chamfered corners. Flat octagonal wooden cover; appears modern. [NB: we have no iinformation on the font of the original church here].

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 376950 5814463

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: 2007-02-20 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 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999