New Buckenham / New Bukenham

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animal - mammal - lion - sejant - 4

Scene Description: re-carved in modern times

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Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/newbuckenham/newbuckenham.htm] [accessed 22 May 2009]

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design element - motifs - floral

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design element - motifs - moulding

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Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/newbuckenham/newbuckenham.htm] [accessed 22 May 2009]

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/newbuckenham/newbuckenham.htm] [accessed 22 May 2009]

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/newbuckenham/newbuckenham.htm] [accessed 22 May 2009]

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design element - patterns - tracery - varied

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Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/newbuckenham/newbuckenham.htm] [accessed 22 May 2009]

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human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose - with club - 4

Scene Description: re-carved in modern times

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inscription

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font at the west end

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Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/newbuckenham/newbuckenham.htm] [accessed 22 May 2009]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: notice the coal stove behind and to the right of the font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2015

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 25 August 1965 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/N/New Buckenham St Martin's church font [4983] 1965-08-25.jpg] [accessed 18 Ocyober 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14705BUC
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: Church Street, New Buckenham, Norfolk, NR16 2AT
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located between Attleborough and Diss, 25 km SW of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Shropham
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Date: 1619
Century and Period: 15th century [base only] [re-cut?] -- 17th century(early) [basin only] [composite font], Late Medieval
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font. We are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this font, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in August 1965
No entry found for New Buckenham in the Domesday survey. Blomenfield (1805-1810) writes: "A Church dedicated to St. Martin, on the north side of the burgh, where it now stands [...] and after this was founded, the chapel of St. Mary continued to be served as formerly, by a custos and brethren, at the prior's appointment [...] The present church was built at divers times, the nave and chancel being the only (if any) remaining parts of the first building; the north isle was built about 1479 [...] This church is a donative, the minister being chosen by the majority of the votes of all the residents in the parish, that pay to the minister's rate [...] On the font, Knevet's arms: it was erected" [NB: there does not appear to be any arms on the font now -- there had been several members of the Knevet family in the expansion of the church, and Thomas Knevet owned one of the manors of New Buckenham ca. 1572, according to Blomenfeld (ibid.)] Noted in Cautley (1949) as a font dated 1619 by an inscription. Described in Pevsner & Wilson: "On a quatrefoiled step. Against the stem four lions and four Wild Men. The bowl is dated 1619, and an interesting example of how the Jacobean carved re-cut and remodelled motifs of the Perp[endicular] style." Described and illustrated in Knott (2006): "On a medieval stem with wild men and lions on it is an early 17th century bowl. Fonts of this kind are often considered 'Laudian', but in fact this predates Laud's reign as Archbishop of Canterbury by 13 years. There are several of these fine, interesting fonts in Norfolk - there are good ones across the county at Gaywood and Tilney All Saints - but this one has the added detail of the churchwardens' names, Thomas Colman and Christopher Sudbury, and a very precise date, February 1st 1619. The stem has been recut, as likely by the Victorians as the Jacobeans."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.472995, 1.073738
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 28′ 22.78″ N, 1° 4′ 25.46″ E
UTM: 31U 369166 5815393

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: English
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on two of the basin panels
Inscription Text: "Feb. 1. 1619 / Thomas Colma[n] / Church = Wardens / xrofer sudburi" [i.e., Christopher Sudbury]

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal ring handle

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810
Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949
Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-05-22 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999