Poringland / East Poringland / Great Poringland / Great Porland / Little Poringland / Porland Magna / Porland Parva / Porrigalanda / Porringelandia / Porringelant / Porringhelanda / Porrinkelanda / West Poringland

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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol - 4

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angel - head - 8

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angel - holding shield - 2

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animal - mammal - lion - sejant - 4

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design element - architectural - buttress - 4

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design element - motifs - floral - rose

Scene Description: on the left panel; only partly visible here

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design element - motifs - floral - square flower - 8

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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view of font

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14908POR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: The Street, Poringland, Norfolk NR14 7LA
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Poringland is adjacent to Framingham Earl
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Henstede [aka Henstead]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, by the tower arch
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font / Evangelists' font / heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: Shotesham [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this church and font
Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "There are two villages of this name, one called East, or GreatPoringland, and the other, West, or Little-Poringland; both of them are in the liberty of the Duke of Norfolk, and formerly were but one village [...] It is plain, that the church of Great Porland (as it is commonly called) was founded before the Confessor's time, for in his survey we find it mentioned, as having then 12 acres of glebe worth one shilling an acre, of which Ulketel, a Dane, was then patron [...] The church is dedicated to All the Saints, hath a steeple round at bottom and sexangular at top, with three bells in it [...] The present fabrick (except the steeple, which is much older) was begun about 1400, and finished about 1432". Blomefield (ibid.) names the first recorded rector in Porland Magna, "John Pounches, resigned in 1317". The present font is described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Perp[endicular]. Octagonal. Against the stem four lions, against the bowl the signs of the fout Evangelists, two lions, one flower and an angel." Described and illustrated in Knott (2006): "a typical East Anglian font of the 15th century, looking very like those nearby at the two Shotesham churches". The basin sides have the symbols of the four Evangelists strangely grouped in four adjacent sides; the other four sides as indicated in Pevsner & Wilson above; the upper underbowl volume has angel heads at the angles, the lower is decorated with square flowers; the stem has four sedente lions alternating with four buttresses; narrow octagonal plinth. The wooden cover is octagonal and almost flat; appears modern. [NB: we have no information on the font from the pre-Conquest church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.565708, 1.348979
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 33′ 56.55″ N, 1° 20′ 56.32″ E
UTM: 31U 388095 5825241

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
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 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999