Billingford nr. Diss / Billingford St. Leonard / Pirleston / Preleston / Prelestuna

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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol - 4

Scene Description: alternating with angels holding shields

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 March 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1769329] [accessed 24 April 2013]

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angel - cherub - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 March 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1769329] [accessed 24 April 2013]

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angel - demi-figure - holding shield - 4

Scene Description: alternating with the symbols of the Evangelists

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 March 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1769329] [accessed 24 April 2013]

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animal - mammal - lion - sejant - 4

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 March 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1769329] [accessed 24 April 2013]

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design element - architectural - buttress or column - 4

Scene Description: between the sedente lions of the stem

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 March 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1769329] [accessed 24 April 2013]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott 2005 in [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/billingford/billingford.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott 2005/2007 in [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/billingford/billingford.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]

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view of font and cover - east side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 March 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1769329] [accessed 24 April 2013]

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view of font cover

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott 2005/2007 in [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/billingford/billingford.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12924BIL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard

Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard

Church Location: Dickleburgh and Rushall, Norfolk IP21 4HP, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off the A143

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Earsham [aka Hersam]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The church is dedicated to St. Leonard; the nave and south porch are tiled, the chancel is thatched; there was a large square tower, which is fallen down, so that it is no higher than the church, is covered in, and hath one bell in it. [...] The font hath the arms of St. Edmund, St. George, and a chevron and chief in one shield, all carved in stone." Blomefield (ibid.) further notes: "In 1267, there was a vicar here, one Walter, at whose death the vicarage was reunited to the rectory, and so it continued a rectory ever since. [...] When Norwich Domesday was made [i.e., 1086], the rector had a house and 10 acres of land; the house stood near the summer-house at the hall, and was long since burnt down, and never rebuilt; the terrier hath 37 pieces of glebe". A baptismal font of the 15th century noted and illustrated in Knott (2005). The font is of the East Anglian type that has angels holding shields alternating with the Evangelists' symbols (or, some times, lions) on the panels of the octagonal basin, and lions [in this case] or woodwooses on the sides of the stem; octagonal plinth. Wooden cover consisting of a plain octagonal base with a small raised Jacobean 'centre-piece' of ribs-around-a-centre-pivot design; 17th-century (?).

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.366946, 1.183021

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 22′ 1.01″ N, 1° 10′ 58.88″ E

UTM: 31U 376291 5803406

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 16th-17th century?

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: 2007-04-05 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.