Plumstead / Plumsted / Plumestede
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Standing permission
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 April 2008 by Simon Knott
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 9 May 1993 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/P/Plumstead St Michael's church from SE [6968] 1993-05-09.jpg] [accessed 24 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font and cover at the back
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 April 2008 by Simon Knott
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 4 April 2008 by Simon Knott
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 14907PLU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: Church Street, Plumstead, Norfolk NR11 7LG
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 6 km SE of Holt
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of North Erpingham
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 15th century [basin only?] [composite font], Late Medieval
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 May 1993
Font Notes:
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The Domesday entry for "Plumstede" mentions neither church nor cleric in it. Bloemfield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is a rectory dedicated to St. Michael, and the patronage was, in the reign of Edward I.[i.e., 1272-1307] in the priory of Merton; the rector had 6 acres with a manse". Pevsner & Wilson (1997) note a plain octagonal font, as well as a 18th-century wooden cover "with splat balusters" in this church. Both are illustrated in Knott (2008). The font has a plain octagonal basin which may be medieval, perhaps re-tooled; it is raised on a moulded octagonal pedestal base and an octagonal plinth that appear modern, but they are white-washed. The wooden cover consists of an octagonal platform with four scrolls ribs converging at the knob finial. [NB: we have no information on the font from the ca.1300 church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.86966, 1.166819
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 52′ 10.78″ N, 1° 10′ 0.55″ E
UTM: 31U 376610 5859345
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 18th-century?
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
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: 2009-06-26 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997