Alby / Alabai / Aldby / Alebei

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design element - architectural - niche or window - 8

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

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

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 - south view

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 exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "There is a clerestory although no signs of aisles having been built"

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 interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2005 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/318839] [accessed 29 May 2013]

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view of font and cover

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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INFORMATION

FontID: 12908ALB

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Ethelbert

Church Patron Saints: St. Ethelbert [aka Æthelberht]

Church Location: Alby with Thwaite, Norfolk NR11 7HE

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located N of Aylsham, 2 km E of Aldborough

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of South Erpingham

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

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1993

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.855353, 1.269925

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 51′ 19.27″ N, 1° 16′ 11.73″ E

UTM: 31U 383511 5857582

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

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2013-05-29 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

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