Taverham / Tauresham / Tauerham / Tavresham

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UB01: Apostle or saint - St. Edmund

Scene Description: with crown and sceptre; an arrow in the left hand

UB02: Apostle or saint - St. Faith - with rods or scourge

UB03: Apostle or saint - St. Giles

Scene Description: with hart or hind at his feet

UB04: Apostle or saint - St. Margaret of Antioch - with dragon

UB05: Apostle or saint - St. Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary

Scene Description: teaching Mary to read

UB06: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. James the Less - holding fuller's club

Scene Description: Knott (2010) identifies the figure as St. Jude [www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/4505038136/in/set-72157623689119529/] [accessed 26 Apruil 2014]

Image Source: photograph by Edwin Rae in the TRIARC - Edwin Rae Collection (Digital Image Collection) [ertk0697.jpg ] [accessed 26 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

UB07: Apostle or saint - St. Agnes

Scene Description: seen here in the centre panel, with a lamb on the book, long hair and sword [illustration with identification available in Knott (2010) [www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/4505032106/in/set-72157623689119529/] [accessed 26 April 2014]]

UB08: Apostle or saint - St. Leonard - with chain or manacles

Scene Description: seen here in the right panel, holding also a pastoral staff in his left hand [illustration with identification as St. Giles available in Knott (2010) [www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/4505032106/in/set-72157623689119529/] [accessed 26 April 2014]]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1553493] [accessed 22 April 2014

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol - 4

Scene Description: the one seen here is Matthew's angel, holding a scroll

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1553493] [accessed 22 April 2014

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

symbol - shield - blank - 4

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1553493] [accessed 22 April 2014

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

symbol - shield - blank - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1553493] [accessed 22 April 2014

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of base - detail

Scene Description: unidentified

Image Source: photograph by Edwin Rae in the TRIARC - Edwin Rae Collection (Digital Image Collection) [ertk0699.jpg ] [accessed 26 April 2014]

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view of church exterior - north portal

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Very early Norman"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 30 April 1977 by Georges Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/T/Taverham St Edmund's church Norman N door [5773] 1977-04-30.jpg] [accessed 22 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1553477] [accessed 22 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Early Norman round tower"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 10 April 1939 by Georges Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/T/Taverham St Edmund's church south side [2944] 1939-04-10.jpg] [accessed 22 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 10 April 1939 by Georges Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/T/Taverham St Edmund's church interior view E [2948] 1939-04-10.jpg] [accessed 22 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1553479] [accessed 22 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the top of the font is visible towards the west end of the south aisle, between the arcade and the south entrance

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1553491] [accessed 22 April 2014

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 12797TAV

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Edmund

Church Patron Saints: St. Edmund the Martyr [aka Edmund of East Anglia]

Church Location: Taverham Lane, Taverham, Norfolk, NR8 6SY

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 9 km NW of Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Taverham

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

Century and Period: 14th century [re-tooled], Decorated [altered]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1939 and 1977

Church Notes: round-tower church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are six entries for Taverham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG1613/taverham/] [accessed 22 April 2014], one of which mentions a church and church lands. Blomefield (1805-1810) adds: "The Church was dedicated to St. Edmund, and had 2 medieties, one mediety was in the prior of Norwich, the other mediety belonged to the lordships of Ralph de Beaufoe, and William Earl Warren, who presented alternately; there being 2 portions or rectors belonging to this mediety. In the reign of Edward I. Richard was rector of one portion of this mediety, [...] and Edmund was rector of the other [...] The old church and chancel were destroyed by lightning in September 1459." The present font is reported in Thomas (1846): "The Perpendicular font has its bowl beaded at the angles and the panels charged with blank shields; --we found a leaded cavity of unusual depth and much rubbish in it. Eight robed figures appear on as many sides of the stem, all with mutilated faces; on the capital shields alternate with two beasts 'segant,' [sejant?] an angel and a bird wreathed about with scrolls. A tall platform has an irregular step and projecting ledge at the west." Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports: "the font is curiously sculpted". A full description and illustration of some of the figures of the font appeared in volume 5 of the 'Ilam Anastatic Drawing Society' [www.archive.org/details/ilamanastasicdra05ilamuoft] [accessed 7 July 2009]: "This beautiful font is octagonal, on four sides of the base of the bowl are carved the emblems of the four evangelists, each bearing a scroll with the name inscribed upon it. The alternate sides are now simply blank shields, but they, as well as the eight shields on the bowl, seem to have, originally, had brasses (doubtless enamelled in colours) affixed to them, the traces of which were filled up during the recent alterations in the church. The whole of the font was then unhappily scraped and restored. Round the base are carved in sunk panels eight beautiful figures of saints, as represented in the sketch. There is first the patron saint, S. Edmund, with crown and sceptre, and holding in his left hand an arrow, the instrument of his martyrdom. On his left is S. Faith, virgin and martyr, holding a bunch of rods, with which she suffered scourging. Next is S. Giles, at his feet crouches the hind which fed him in the wilderness. Then S. Margaret, V. and M., at whose feet lies the dragon, vanquished by the cross. The remaining figures are, S. Anna, mother of the Blessed Virgin, represented as teaching S. Mary to read. S. James the Less, holding in his hand the Fuller's club. S. Agnes whose name is indicated by the lamb upon the book, whilst in her hand she holds the sword of martyrdom, and her long flowing hair illustrates the legend, that when stripped by the Eoman Governor her hair miraculously grew and covered her completely. And lastly, S. Leonard, bearing a pastoral staff, in allusion to a monastery which he founded, and a chain, as patron of prisoners. The designs of these figures are for the most part very beautiful." Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Octagonal, with eight statuettes against the stem, the signs of the Evangelists against the underside of the bowl, and plain shields against the bowl."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.715515, 1.200359

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 42′ 55.85″ N, 1° 12′ 1.29″ E

UTM: 31U 378438 5842144

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: on the scrolls of the Evangelists

Inscription Text: [the name of each Evangelist]

REFERENCES

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

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

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