Saxlingham Nethergate nr. Norwich / Saiselingeham / Saisselingeham / Sasilingaham
Results: 21 records
B01: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - See of Ely (three crowns)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B03: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - the instruments of the Passion
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B04: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant
Scene Description: one of four
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B05: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - Eucharist (three cups with wafers)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B06: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant
Scene Description: one of four
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B07: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - Trinity
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B08: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant
Scene Description: one of four
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B09: design element - motifs - floral
Scene Description: on the frames around the lion panels of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
BU01: angel - head - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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BU02: design element - motifs - floral - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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UB01: animal - mammal - lion - sejant
Scene Description: one of four
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
UB02: design element - architectural - buttress - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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UB03: animal - mammal - lion - sejant
Scene Description: one of four
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
UB04: animal - mammal - lion - sejant
Scene Description: one of four
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
UB05: animal - mammal - lion - sejant
Scene Description: one of four
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Photo caption: "View of south side. Mainly Decorated in style, with some later windows inserted"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W pphotograph taken 29 May 1939 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Saxlingham Nethergate St Mary's church [3039] 1939-05-29.jpg] [accessed 29 January 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/saxlinghamnethergate/saxlinghamnethergate.htm]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font visible at the west end, centre aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 July 2009 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1384569] [accessed 25 April 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 July 2009 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1384482] [accessed 25 April 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14916SAX
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font / heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Church Hill, Saxlingham Nethergate, Norfolk NR15 1TD
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 15 km S of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Henstede [aka Henstead]
Additional Comments: altered font? (partly re-carved, some replacements) -- disappeared font? (the one from the 11thC-12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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Blomefield (1805-1810) writes on Saxlingham: "The town is commonly divided into two parts, called Nethergate, and Overgate, or Thorp; the manors were called Netherhall-Verdons, and Overhall or Thorphall, and have been united for some time past; to the former the advowson of Saxlingham-Nethergate belonged, and to the latter that of Saxlingham-Thorp. [...] The church of St. Mary of Saxlingham Nethergate, which stands thus in the Revision: it hath the same patron and rector with Thorp [i.e., Saxlingham Thorpe] [...] The church is 25 yards long, and 6 and an half broad, and hath no isles; the nave and chancel are leaded, and the south porch is tiled, it hath a square tower, and six bells; the parsonage, which is a good and convenient house, joins to the west part of the churchyard. [...] Saxlingham-Thorp is a rectory [...] in 1740, was consolidated to Nethergate." The present font is described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): " C15. Octagonal. Against the stem four lions, against the bowl also four lions and four demi-figures of angels with shields, on which the emblem of the Trinity, the Instruments of the Passion, and three crowns and three chalices." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2007): "a bulky 15th century font in the East Anglian style, similar to several at churches around here". Octagonal mounted font of the 15th century in the Perpendicular style; the octagonal basin has four sides ornamented with the said emblems [Instruments of the Passion, the Trinity, the See of Ely (three crowns) and the Eucharist (three chalices with Host), alternating with four seated lions; the upper level of the underbowl has an angel head with spread wings at each of the eight angles, some of them re-carved, at least one replaced; there are floral motifs on the lower part of the chamfer; the octagonal-to-square base has a seated lion on each of four sides mounted on a short and plain octagonal lower base, while the spaces between the lions have buttresses in them; quadrangular lower base with chamfered angles. The wooden cover is round, flat and plain; modern.. [NB: a local source [2 July 2010 e-mail from Janice Tostevin to BSI] notes that a 1741 document refers to a faint inscription on the base of the font; this inscription is now totally gone] [NB: we have no information on the font from the 11thC-12thC church here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, and to Janice Tostevin, for their photographs of, and information on this font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in May 1939
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 383897 5820914
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.525941, 1.288589
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 31′ 33.39″ N, 1° 17′ 18.92″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 5: 495-502 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78215] [accessed 25 April 2013]
- Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999, p. 629