Stow Bedon / Stou / Stow Breccles / Stow Bydon

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angel - cherub - head - 8

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Image Source: digital photograph by Colin Cunliffe, 2007 [www.colin.cunliffe.btinternet.co.uk/cunliffe/Index.htm] [accessed 9 March 2007]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 11 March 2007)

design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches

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Image Source: digital photograph by Colin Cunliffe, 2007 [www.colin.cunliffe.btinternet.co.uk/cunliffe/Index.htm] [accessed 9 March 2007]

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design element - motifs - Ogee

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Image Source: digital photograph by Colin Cunliffe, 2007 [www.colin.cunliffe.btinternet.co.uk/cunliffe/Index.htm] [accessed 9 March 2007]

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette

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Image Source: digital photograph by Colin Cunliffe, 2007 [www.colin.cunliffe.btinternet.co.uk/cunliffe/Index.htm] [accessed 9 March 2007]

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design element - motifs - vine

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Image Source: digital photograph by Colin Cunliffe, 2007 [www.colin.cunliffe.btinternet.co.uk/cunliffe/Index.htm] [accessed 9 March 2007]

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design element - patterns - crenellated

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Image Source: digital photograph by Colin Cunliffe, 2007 [www.colin.cunliffe.btinternet.co.uk/cunliffe/Index.htm] [accessed 9 March 2007]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2008 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/stowbedon/stowbedon.htm] [accessed 13 March 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2008 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/stowbedon/stowbedon.htm] [accessed 13 March 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the top of the font visible at the back (west end), behind the bank of benches on the right (north) side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2008 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/stowbedon/stowbedon.htm] [accessed 13 March 2013]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph by Colin Cunliffe, 2007 [www.colin.cunliffe.btinternet.co.uk/cunliffe/Index.htm] [accessed 9 March 2007]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 11 March 2007)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2008 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/stowbedon/stowbedon.htm] [accessed 13 March 2013]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12791STO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Botolph

Church Patron Saints: St. Botulph [aka St. Botolph, Botolph of Thorney, Botulf]

Church Location: High Street, Stow Bedon, Norfolk NR17 1BX

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 8 km SSE of Watton

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century [re-carved in 1852], Perpendicular [altered?]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk] and to Colin Cunliffe for their photographs of this church and font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church hath a square tower, and three bells; it consists of a nave and chancel covered with thatch; [...] It is dedicated to St. Butolph, and was appropriated to the Abbess of Marham, before the Council of Lateran" [which of the first four?]. Blomefield (ibid.) names "Walter de Banham" as the first recorded vicar of this church, in 1303. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports: "the font is large, and beautifully sculptured". Pevsner & Wilson (1999) write: "Font. Big, octagonal, Perp[endicular], but so re-worked in 1852 as to appear all of that date." Illustrated in Knott (2008). The font consists of an octagonal basin decorated with a crenellated upper rim, below which a vine and a moulding; on the sides below it deeply-carved panels with two or three trefoil arches; another moulding as a lower rim; angel heads (?) and roses on the chamfered underbowl; large motifs (quatrefoil, ogee motifa, etc.) on the sides of the stem; graded splaying lower base; raised on a narrow plinth with kneeling stone.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 356239 5822042

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

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: 2009-08-26 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