Norwich No. 36 / Norwic / Coslany

INFORMATION

Font ID: 12893NOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Michael_Coslany,_Norwich
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located at Colegate and Coslany
Font Notes:
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): "Font. Octagonal, C14, simple, with quatrefoils." [NB: after becoming redundant this church was turned into a Science Centre -- the 14th-century font was moved to Reedham, Norfolk, as replacement to the font there destroyed in a fire in 1981 -- cf. Index entry for Reedham]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 246