Claxton / Clackestona / Clakestona / Clareston / Clarestona
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B02: symbol - shield - emblem - the instruments of the Passion
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2005 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/claxton/claxton.htm] [accessed 21 July 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B05: design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose - 2
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2005 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/claxton/claxton.htm] [accessed 21 July 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B06: design element - motifs - floral - rosette
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
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 font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
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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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
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]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
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 east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
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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animal - mammal - lion - sejant - 4
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
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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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2005 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/claxton/claxton.htm] [accessed 21 July 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12944CLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: the font at Wheatacre [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: Church Lane, Claxton, Norfolk NR14 7HZ
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 15 km SE of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Loddon
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one of the ca.1086 church here [cf. FontNotes])
Font Notes:
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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.
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
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 393920 5826320
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.576566, 1.434548
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 34′ 35.64″ N, 1° 26′ 4.37″ 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
- Billett, Michael, English thatched churches, London: Robert Hale, 2006, p. 89
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 10: 111-118 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78639] [accessed 28 February 2014]
- 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 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999, p. 263