Foxley nr. Foulsham / Foxle
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 January 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/foxley/foxley.htm] [accessed 22 June 2009]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 January 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/foxley/foxley.htm] [accessed 22 June 2009]
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 January 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/foxley/foxley.htm] [accessed 22 June 2009]
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view of church exterior - southwest end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 19 September 1992 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/F/Foxley St Thomas' church tower [6906] 1992-09-19.jpg] [accessed 2 October 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 January 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/foxley/foxley.htm] [accessed 22 June 2009]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font and cover are visible at the back (west end), beneath the gallery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 January 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/foxley/foxley.htm] [accessed 22 June 2009]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 January 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/foxley/foxley.htm] [accessed 22 June 2009]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 14873FOX
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Thomas
Church Patron Saints: St. Thomas
Church Location: The Street, Foxley, Norfolk, NR20 4QP
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off (E) of the A1067, 3 km S of Foulsham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Eynford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, beneath the gallery
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his 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 September 1992
Font Notes:
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The Domesday entry for "Foxle" mentions neither church nor cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church of Foxley is a rectory, dedicated to St. Thomas. [...] The church is covered with lead, the chancel thatched. In the tower, which is four square, hang 3 bells. [...] 1305, John de Hunstede instituted rector, presented by Sir Hugh de Vere." The font here is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Font. C14. Octagonal, simple, with quatrefoils". Knott (2006) notes and illustrates the font and its 17th-century cover. The octagonal basin is decorated as indicated in Pevsner & Wilson above, and has a moulded underbowl; it is raised on a plain octagonal shaft with a moulded splaying lower base; on an octagonal plinth with kneeling stone. Given that our first record of this church is the first recorded rector in 1305 [cf. supra], it is quite possible that this is the font of the original church here. The cover is octagonal and stylised, fading to a sharp end and a dove finial.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.755129, 1.020503
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 45′ 18.46″ N, 1° 1′ 13.81″ E
UTM: 31U 366412 5846869
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810
Miquel, Caroline, "Monuments et mobilier de la période mediévale du canton de Rieumes (Haute-Garonne)", 1997, 12, Archéo en Saves, 1997, pp. 33-65; [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/foxley/foxley.htm] [accessed 22 June 2009]
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997