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coat of arms

Scene Description: of the front pair, the one on the right: "Three lions passant guardant, throughout a label of three (Duke of Lancaster, Gules, three lions passant guardant or, a label of three ermine. Hundred of North Erpingham, part L 207, " Parcell of the Dutchy of Lancaster."" [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken 27 August 21965 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Sustead Ss Peter and Paul church 15c font [5017] 1965-08-27.jpg] [accessed 26 September 2013]

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coat of arms

Scene Description: the one on the left: "A chevron ermine between three pierced mullets ([G?]resham, Argent, a chevron ermine between three pierced mullets sable" [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 5 March 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/715037] [accessed 26 September 2013]

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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8

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symbol - shield - emblem - Trinity

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 5 March 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/715037] [accessed 26 September 2013]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "The round tower is probably Norman. The porch is 14c"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 27 August 21965 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Sustead Ss Peter and Paul church from SE [5018] 1965-08-27.jpg] [accessed 26 September 2013]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/sustead/sustead.htm] [accessed 26 September 2013]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: drawing 2014 by Robert Wilkes

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2003 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/310583] [accessed 26 September 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/sustead/sustead.htm] [accessed 26 September 2013]

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view of font

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2005 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/sustead/sustead.htm] [accessed 6 July 2009]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Photo caption: "15thc font [...] north doorway and Stuart table"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 27 August 21965 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Sustead Ss Peter and Paul church 15c font [5017] 1965-08-27.jpg] [accessed 26 September 2013]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14933SUS

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul

Church Location: High Street, Sustead, Norfolk, NR11 8RU

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 6 km SSW of Cromer, 10 km NW of Gunton

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of North Erpingham

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, N side

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church and font taken by his father, George Plunkett, taken in August 1965

Church Notes: Round-tower church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for Sustead [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TG1837/sustead/] [accessed 20 October 2015], but they mention neither church nor cleric in them. Blomefield (1805-1810), who notes the Domesday entries, writes: "The Church is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, and was a rectory, valued at 10 marks, granted by William Bigod, (son and heir of Roger, and steward of the houshold to King Henry I. [cf. infra]) to the priory of Thetford, and appropriated thereto. In the reign of Edward I. there belonged to it a house, and 16 acres of land", so we learn that somewhere in Henry I's reign, 1100-1135, a church existed here. The coats of arms on the basin sides of the present font are described and illustrated in Farrer (1887 [1885?]): "Shields on the Font: II. The Emblem of the Trinity. -- III. Three lions passant guardant, throughout a label of three (Duke of Lancaster, Gules, three lions passant guardant or, a label of three ermine. Hundred of North Erpingham, part L 207, " Parcell of the Dutchy of Lancaster.") -- IV. Six fleurs-de-lis, three, two, and one; a chief indented {Paatony Argent, six fleurs-de-lis, three, two, and one azure; a chief indented or.) -- V. A lion rampant {Felbrigg, Or, a lion rampant gules.) -- VI. A chevron ermine between three pierced mullets ([G?]resham, Argent, a chevron ermine between three pierced mullets sable.) -- VII. Three talbots passant, turned to the sinister {Browne, Sable, three talbots passant argent.) This coat was in the church windows. Kemp's Collection and Hundred of North Erpingham, part i. 7. The family lived at Thwayt [i.e., Thwaite]. -- Vlil. Gresham. -- IX A chevron between three pike {Damme, Sable, a chevron between three dolphins naiant or. It is not at all like a dolphin, and the head is exactly like a pike.)" Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "C15. Octagonal. The stem with simple panelling, against the bowl exactly carved coats of arms. -- Stem of a second font (?) with statuettes, defaced." The 15th-century (?) font is illustrated in Knott (2005). On the sides of the octagonal basin are charged shields: one with the symbol of the Trinity, the third appears to have the arms of England; one of the other sides appears to have a large (Tudor?) rose; the sides of the octagonal stem have trefoiled arches/windows. The wooden cover has four ribs around a pivot on an octagonal platform; appears modern. [NB: we have no information on the font of the 12th-century church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.886684, 1.2424

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 53′ 12.06″ N, 1° 14′ 32.64″ E

UTM: 31U 381743 5861112

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

Farrer, Edmund, The Church Heraldry of Norfolk, a description of all coats of arms […] now to be found in the county […], Norwich: A.H. Goose and Co., 1885-1893

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-07-06 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997