Claxton / Clackestona / Clakestona / Clareston / Clarestona

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B01: symbol - shield - emblem - Trinity

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B02: symbol - shield - emblem - the instruments of the Passion

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Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2005 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/claxton/claxton.htm] [accessed 21 July 2009]

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B03: animal - mammal - lion - 3

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B04: symbol - shield - emblem - cross - saltire

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B05: design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose - 2

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Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2005 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/claxton/claxton.htm] [accessed 21 July 2009]

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B06: design element - motifs - floral - rosette

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Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2005 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/claxton/claxton.htm] [accessed 21 July 2009]

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angel - cherub - head - 8

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Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2005 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/claxton/claxton.htm] [accessed 21 July 2009]

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animal - mammal - lion - sejant - 4

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Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2005 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/claxton/claxton.htm] [accessed 21 July 2009]

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design element - architectural - buttress - 4

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Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2005 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/claxton/claxton.htm] [accessed 21 July 2009]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph February 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/claxton/claxton.htm] [accessed 28 February 2014]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 8 July 1982 taken by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Claxton St Andrew's church from SE [6241] 1982-07-08.jpg] [accessed 28 February 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph February 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/claxton/claxton.htm] [accessed 28 February 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph February 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/claxton/claxton.htm] [accessed 28 February 2014]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2005 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/claxton/claxton.htm] [accessed 21 July 2009]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12944CLA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: Church Lane, Claxton, Norfolk NR14 7HZ

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 15 km SE of Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Loddon

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

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Cognate Fonts: the font at Wheatacre [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for the photographs of this church and font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in July 1982

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are four entries for Claxton [varian spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG3203/claxton/] [accessed 28 February 20144, one of which includes a church in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The church is dedicated to St. Andrew, and was appropriated to the priory of Bliburgh, to which it was probably given by William de Cheyney, lord of this town in the reign of Henry II. valued at eleven marks, and a vicarage was appointed; the patronage of it was in the said priory," The present font is noted in Billett (2006): "Four lions support the sturdy stem of the fifteenth-century octagonal font, which stands on a small pedestal. Four of the panels depict carved shields, including the saltire cross [...], the instruments of the passion, an emblem of the trinity and two lions and flowers." Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "C15. Octagonal. Four lions against the stem, four shields (emblem of the Trinity, Instruments of the Passion, a lion and St Andrew's Cross, two lions and two flowers)." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2005): "15th century font, very similar to that at Wheatacre". The flowers on the basin sides are Turdor roses; the frames of the panels themselves have little rosette motifs all around; angels heads at the underbowl angles; buttresses between the lions of the base. Small octagonal plinth. Round and flat wooden cover.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.576566, 1.434548

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 34′ 35.64″ N, 1° 26′ 4.37″ E

UTM: 31U 393920 5826320

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

Billett, Michael, English thatched churches, London: Robert Hale, 2006

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: 2009-07-22 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999