Alby / Alabai / Aldby / Alebei
Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2129443] [accessed 29 May 2013]
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symbol - shield - blank - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2129443] [accessed 29 May 2013]
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2129443] [accessed 29 May 2013]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Photo caption: "There is a clerestory although no signs of aisles having been built"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 9 May 1993 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/A/Alby St Ethelbert's church from SE [6973] 1993-05-09.jpg] [accessed 10 June 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2005 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/318838] [accessed 29 May 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2005 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/318839] [accessed 29 May 2013]
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design element - architectural - niche or window - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2129443] [accessed 29 May 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12908ALB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Ethelbert
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Ethelbert [aka Æthelberht]
Church Address: Alby with Thwaite, Norfolk NR11 7HE
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located N of Aylsham, 2 km E of Aldborough
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of South Erpingham
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Alby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG1934/alby/] [accessed 10 June 2014], neither of which reports a church or cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is dedicated to St. Ethelbert [...] I have met with the following Rectors Here [i.e., the first recorded rectors are]; 1312, Robert de Felbrigge, priest". The present font is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Font. Font, C15. Octagonal, plain with shields." The font consists of an octagonal basin with a blank shield in each of the deep-carved panels of the sides, a graded chamfer on the underbowl; raised on an octagonal pedestal base decorated with eight windows or niches on the sides, and a slightly wider lower base, also octagonal; on an octagonal plinth. The font is a rather crude work. The wooden cover is octagonal, flat and plain; appears modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1993
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 383511 5857582
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.855353, 1.269925
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 51′ 19.27″ N, 1° 16′ 11.73″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 6: 421-422 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78272] [accessed 29 May 2013]
- Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 359