Pulham St. Mary / Pulham Utraque / Pullaham / Pulnam
Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
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B01: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion - with scroll - inscribed scroll
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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B02: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - the instruments of the Passion - hammer, lance, nails
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B03: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew - symbol - angel - with scroll - inscribed scroll
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B04: angel - demi-figure - holding crown
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B05: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Luke - symbol - winged bull - with scroll - inscribed scroll
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B06: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - the instruments of the Passion - scourges
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B07: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - symbol - eagle - with scroll - inscribed scroll
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B08: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - the instruments of the Passion - crown of thorns
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LBF01: Apostle or saint - Church Father?
Scene Description: St. Jerome and his lion?
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LBF02: cleric - bishop, abbot or pope - seated - wearing mitre - with scroll
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LBF03: Apostle or saint - Church Father?
Scene Description: with child symbol?
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LBF04: cleric - cardinal? - seated - wearing hat - with scroll
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LBF05: Apostle or saint - Church Father?
Scene Description: with bull/ox symbol?
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LBF06: cleric - bishop, abbot or pope - seated - wearing mitre - with flask?
LBF07: Apostle or saint - Church Father?
Scene Description: with bird/eagle symbol?
LBF08: cleric - bishop, abbot or pope - seated - wearing mitre - with book
angel - head - 8
Scene Description: one of eight, all very similar
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph March 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/pulhamstmary/pulhamstmary.htm] [accessed 17 April 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font and cover at the west end, centre aisle
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view of font and cover
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 24 August 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/P/Pulham St Mary Virgin church font from SE [5699] 1976-08-24.jpg] [accessed 18 October 2015]
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view of font context
![19th-century, by Bodley [cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1090406012_compressed.png)
Scene Description: 19th-century, by Bodley [cf. Font notes]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 14421PUL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: The Street, Pulham St. Mary, Norfolk IP21 4RD
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located on the B1134, 10 km NE of Diss
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Earsham
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century [basin only] [composite font], Late Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk], and to Janice Tostevin for her photographs of, and information on this font. We are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this font, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in August 1976
Font Notes:
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Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "Norwich Domesday says, that the rector had a noble house, and about 44 acres of glebe; that the church with its chapel, was then valued at 80 marks [...] The church of St. Mary the Virgin is the principal or motherchurch, and hath a square tower, with a spire on its top, and six bells". Blomefield (ibid.) supplies further sources to prove that "chapel of St. Mary Magdalen [was] [...] only a chapel of ease to Pulham St. Mary the Virgin", and names "Henry de Wengham, Dean of St. Martin le Grand in London, presented by the King" as its first recorded rector in 1253. The present font is described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "C15. On the bowl the four Evangelists and angels with shields with the Instruments of the Passion. The stem was replaced by Bodley (eight high-relief figures of saints), who added the font cover (small, of the type with vanes and a central crocketed pinnacle)." [i.e., Victorian architect G. F. Bodley]. Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with deeply-carved sides, alternating the symbols of the four Evangelists, identified by inscribed painted scrolls, with demi-angels holding symbols and shields charged with the Instruments of the Passion; the underbowl chamfer has angel busts at the angles, wings opened over the sides, with a graded moulding below; around the modern octagonal base four standing figures (they appear to be Church Fathers accompanied by their symbols), alternating with four seated figures (bishops or popes?); the font is brightly painted and gilded; raised on a two-step plinth, the upper step with decorated sides. The modern wooden cover, also brightly painted and gilded, has an octagonal on which are raised ribs that have been worked into a religious structure, a tower or church; the church notes identify the cover as Bodley's [cf. supra]. [NB: we have no information on the font from the Domesday-time church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.42091, 1.25222
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 25′ 15.28″ N, 1° 15′ 7.99″ E
UTM: 31U 381147 5809292
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (inside rim): 77 cm* [approx]
Basin Total Height: 56 cm*
Height of Base: 50 cm*
Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: 34 x 38 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 106 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Bob & Janice Tostevin
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Location: on the scrolls held by the Evangelists' symbols
Inscription Text: [names of the four Evangelists]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: yes; counterweight
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999