Old Lakenham and Tuckswood
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view of font and cover - southwest side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 18 June 1938 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norwich/extramuralmediaevalchurches.htm] [accessed 12 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of font and cover - east side
Scene Description: Source caption: "Carved with Emblems of the Passion, the Evangelists etc."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 18 June 1938 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norwich/extramuralmediaevalchurches.htm] [accessed 12 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
angel - 2
Scene Description: one seen here on the left panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2015
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken 18 June 1938 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norwich/extramuralmediaevalchurches.htm] [accessed 12 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
symbol - the instruments of the Passion
Scene Description: seen here on the right panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2015
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken 18 June 1938 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norwich/extramuralmediaevalchurches.htm] [accessed 12 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol - 4
Scene Description: Three of them seen here: left: Luke's -- centre: Matthew's -- right: John's
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2015
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken 18 June 1938 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norwich/extramuralmediaevalchurches.htm] [accessed 12 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St John the Baptist and All Saints. Mainly Perpendicular."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 7 June 1937 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norwich/extramuralmediaevalchurches.htm] [accessed 12 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font at the west end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 18 June 1938 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norwich/extramuralmediaevalchurches.htm] [accessed 12 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 18 June 1938 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norwich/extramuralmediaevalchurches.htm] [accessed 12 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
symbol - crown
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2015
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken 18 June 1938 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norwich/extramuralmediaevalchurches.htm] [accessed 12 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2015
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken 18 June 1938 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norwich/extramuralmediaevalchurches.htm] [accessed 12 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
design element - motifs - floral - square flower
Scene Description: a number of them in some of the arches/windows -- some appear to be elaborated versions of the Tudor flower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2015
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken 18 June 1938 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norwich/extramuralmediaevalchurches.htm] [accessed 12 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12903TAK
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Late Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John and All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John & All Saints
Church Address: Harwood Road, Old Lakenham, Norwich, Norfolk NR1 2NG
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on Harwood Rd., outer Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Humbleyard [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Lakenham in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TG2307/lakenham/] [accessed 12 September 2015]; it mentions a church and 0.1 hides of church lands in it. Pevsner & Wilson (1997) note: "Font. Octagonal. C14. Panelled stem with fleurons, bowl with two angels, the signs of the Evangelists and the Instruments of the Passion."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church and font, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1937-1938
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.6062, 1.2965
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 36′ 22″ N, 1° 17′ 47″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, flat and plain; modern
REFERENCES
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 347