Norwich No. 35 / Norwic

INFORMATION

FontID: 12892NOR

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John

Church Patron Saints: St. John

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located in Pottergate

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Font Notes: Click to view

There are ten entries for Norwich [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TG2308/norwich/] [accessed 13 October 2020], one of which records "22.7 churches. 2.57 church lands" in it; a separate entry records a priest and a church in it. Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997) as a baptismal font of the 19th century [NB: the church goes back at least to the 15th century but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]

REFERENCES

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