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NéA: view of church exterior - northwest view

The church exterior seen approximately two years before the 1981 fire -- Photo caption: "The church is completely thatched. The square west tower dates from 1447. Margaret Paston who spent much of her girlhood at Reedham Hall, sent eight shillings and fourpence towards the cost of building it"
Scene Description: The church exterior seen approximately two years before the 1981 fire -- Photo caption: "The church is completely thatched. The square west tower dates from 1447. Margaret Paston who spent much of her girlhood at Reedham Hall, sent eight shillings and fourpence towards the cost of building it"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: ww.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/R/Reedham St John Baptist church from NW [6026] 1979-08-03.jpg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capital - 8

the font from Norwich St. Miles Coslany [cf. FontNotes]
Scene Description: the font from Norwich St. Miles Coslany [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 December 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/627750] [accessed 14 May 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8

the font from Norwich St. Miles Coslany [cf. FontNotes]
Scene Description: the font from Norwich St. Miles Coslany [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2020 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 26 October 2020)

view of church exterior - northwest view

the reconstructed church after the 1981 fire -- Photo caption: "On 19th March 1981 the church was gutted by fire during ongoing restoration work on the church tower, leaving only the tower and the curtain walls. Most of the interior, including memorials and font, were destroyed. The present furniture was designed and made in 2000 by John Barnard. The stained glass windows were designed by Sarah Bristow of Norwich in 1999/2000. The tower was built in 1447. It contains 6 bells, the tenor dating from 1261. This church is open every day"
Scene Description: the reconstructed church after the 1981 fire -- Photo caption: "On 19th March 1981 the church was gutted by fire during ongoing restoration work on the church tower, leaving only the tower and the curtain walls. Most of the interior, including memorials and font, were destroyed. The present furniture was designed and made in 2000 by John Barnard. The stained glass windows were designed by Sarah Bristow of Norwich in 1999/2000. The tower was built in 1447. It contains 6 bells, the tenor dating from 1261. This church is open every day"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 December 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/627706] [accessed 14 May 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior - south view

re-built after the 1981 fire
Scene Description: re-built after the 1981 fire
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2020 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 26 October 2020)

view of church exterior - southwest view

re-built after the 1981 fire
Scene Description: re-built after the 1981 fire
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2020 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 26 October 2020)

view of church interior - nave - looking east

The church interior seen approximately two years before the 1981 fire -- Photo caption: "The church has the curious appearance of having two chancel arches. The great width of the nave (31 feet) shows that the south aisle has been absorbed"
Scene Description: The church interior seen approximately two years before the 1981 fire -- Photo caption: "The church has the curious appearance of having two chancel arches. The great width of the nave (31 feet) shows that the south aisle has been absorbed"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 6 August 1979 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/R/Reedham St John Baptist church interior E [6035] 1979-08-06.jpg] [accessed 14 May 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking east

the interior of the reconstructed church after the 1981 fire; the font seen here was originally at the church of St. Miles Coslany, Norwich -- Photo caption: "On 19th March 1981 the church was gutted by fire during ongoing restoration work on the church tower, leaving only the tower and the curtain walls. Most of the interior, including memorials and font, were destroyed. The present furniture was designed and made in 2000 by John Barnard. The stained glass windows were designed by Sarah Bristow of Norwich in 1999/2000. The tower was built in 1447. It contains 6 bells, the tenor dating from 1261. This church is open every day"
Scene Description: the interior of the reconstructed church after the 1981 fire; the font seen here was originally at the church of St. Miles Coslany, Norwich -- Photo caption: "On 19th March 1981 the church was gutted by fire during ongoing restoration work on the church tower, leaving only the tower and the curtain walls. Most of the interior, including memorials and font, were destroyed. The present furniture was designed and made in 2000 by John Barnard. The stained glass windows were designed by Sarah Bristow of Norwich in 1999/2000. The tower was built in 1447. It contains 6 bells, the tenor dating from 1261. This church is open every day"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 December 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/627708] [accessed 14 May 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior - nave - looking west

the interior of the reconstructed church after the 1981 fire; the font seen here was originally at the church of St. Miles Coslany, Norwich -- Photo caption: "On 19th March 1981 the church was gutted by fire during ongoing restoration work on the church tower, leaving only the tower and the curtain walls. Most of the interior, including memorials and font, were destroyed. The present furniture was designed and made in 2000 by John Barnard. The stained glass windows were designed by Sarah Bristow of Norwich in 1999/2000. The tower was built in 1447. It contains 6 bells, the tenor dating from 1261. This church is open every day"
Scene Description: the interior of the reconstructed church after the 1981 fire; the font seen here was originally at the church of St. Miles Coslany, Norwich -- Photo caption: "On 19th March 1981 the church was gutted by fire during ongoing restoration work on the church tower, leaving only the tower and the curtain walls. Most of the interior, including memorials and font, were destroyed. The present furniture was designed and made in 2000 by John Barnard. The stained glass windows were designed by Sarah Bristow of Norwich in 1999/2000. The tower was built in 1447. It contains 6 bells, the tenor dating from 1261. This church is open every day"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 December 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/627713] [accessed 14 May 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of font and cover

the font from Norwich St. Miles Coslany [cf. FontNotes]
Scene Description: the font from Norwich St. Miles Coslany [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2020 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 26 October 2020)

view of font and cover in context

the font from Norwich St. Miles Coslany [cf. FontNotes]
Scene Description: the font from Norwich St. Miles Coslany [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/reedham/reedham.htm] [accessed 2 July 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 14910REE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Church Road, Reedham, Norfolk, NR13 3UH
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located WSW of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Walsham
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave [destroyed in 1981]
Century and Period: 15th century (mid?), Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, and to Colin Smith for their photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: "On 19th March 1981 the church was gutted by fire during ongoing restoration work on the church tower, leaving only the tower and the curtain walls. Most of the interior, including memorials and font, were destroyed. The present furniture was designed and made in 2000 by John Barnard. The stained glass windows were designed by Sarah Bristow of Norwich in 1999/2000. The tower was built in 1447. It contains 6 bells, the tenor dating from 1261." [source: Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/627700] [accessed 14 May 2014]]
Font Notes:
There are three entries for Reedham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG4202/reedham/] [accessed 14 May 2014], the part under the lordship of Brictric [1066] and Richard [1086] reporting a church and churchlands in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) transcribes and translates the relevant text: "There was one church endowed with 40 acres", and adds: "The Church is a rectory, dedicated to John Baptist". The font 15th-century font of this church was destroyed in a fire in 1981. It consisted of an octagonal basin with large quatrefoils on the sides, raised on an octagonal stem and a splaying lower base. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat; appears modern; the font may well have been dated to the same period as the main fabric of the church, the mid-15th century. The present font was originally from the church of St. Miles Coslany, in Norwich, and was sent here as a replacement for the destroyed font in 1981 [cf. Index entry for Norwich No. 36].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.565939, 1.58058
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 33′ 57.38″ N, 1° 34′ 50.09″ E
UTM: 31U 403792 5824933

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat; painted

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: 2009-07-02 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.