Wickmere / Wicmara / Wicmera / Wigemere
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BU01: human figure - grotesque or fantastic - head
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Scene Description: of the modern font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
BU02: human figure - grotesque or fantastic - head
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Scene Description: of the modern font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
BU03: human figure - grotesque or fantastic - head
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Scene Description: of the modern font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
BU04: human figure - grotesque or fantastic - head
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Scene Description: of the modern font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
BU05: human figure - grotesque or fantastic - head
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Scene Description: of the modern font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
BU06: human figure - grotesque or fantastic - head
![of the modern font [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1130718008_compressed.png)
Scene Description: of the modern font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
BU07: human figure - grotesque or fantastic - head
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Scene Description: of the modern font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
BU08: human figure - grotesque or fantastic - head
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Scene Description: of the modern font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
BU09: human figure - grotesque or fantastic - head
![of the modern font [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1130718011_compressed.png)
Scene Description: of the modern font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2007 by Evelyn Simak [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/781800] [accessed 8 September 2009]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of basin - west side
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Scene Description: of the modern font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of basin - north side
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Scene Description: of the modern font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of basin
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Scene Description: of the modern font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digitgal photograph taken 27 May 2009 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wickmere/wickmere.htm] [accessed 30 May 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digitgal photograph taken 27 May 2009 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wickmere/wickmere.htm] [accessed 30 May 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font in context
Scene Description: the modern font at the west end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digitgal photograph taken 27 May 2009 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wickmere/wickmere.htm] [accessed 30 May 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - chancel and east end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digitgal photograph taken 27 May 2009 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wickmere/wickmere.htm] [accessed 30 May 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: showing the medieval chancel screen
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digitgal photograph taken 27 May 2009 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wickmere/wickmere.htm] [accessed 30 May 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14965WIC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Notes: round-tower church
Church Address: Watery Lane, Wickmere, Norfolk, NR11 7JE
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 8 km NW of Aylsham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of South Erpingham
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "W[ickmere], Wicmara, Wigemere, now commonly called Wickmere [...] we find it so called in Domsday, and at the making of that survey it was in five different parts, having two principal manors; the first of which Earl Harold held, and Hanfrid after him, and Drue de Breureria claimed it as his heir; this was the greater part of the town [...] After the death of Drue aforesaid; and the advowson of the church, which was given by William Earl Warren and Surrey to the monks of Castleacre, when he founded that house". Blomefield (ibid.) does not give a description of the church, as he usually does, but names the forst recorded rectors here: "The [rectors] I have met with are, John Galys, 1344. 1326, Thomas de Redham, late rector [...]". Thomas (1846) writes: "Font. Bowl panelled, with quatrefoils, in circles and square flowers, charged alternately with blank shields and roses; beneath, a head at each angle; stem beaded; rim mutilated in forcing out south staple, northern one remains. Style, Per[pendicular] leaded cavity dirty, and piece of old iron in it, drain stopped. Position, west of north-west pier." The present font here is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Octagonal, C19, with, on the underside of the bowl, faces." Illustrated in Knott (2005). It is a Victorian version of one of East Anglian popular 15th-century font designs: octagonal with blank shields and Tudor roses alternating on the basin sides; the base more in the 13th-century style, with clustered columns. [NB: we have no information on the font(s) of the earlier church here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk], and to Janice Tostevin, for their photographs of this church and modern font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 379900 5857954
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.8579, 1.216183
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 51′ 28.44″ N, 1° 12′ 58.26″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Drainage System: centre hole in basin [reported blocked ca. 1846]
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 6: 456-463 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78278] [accessed 30 May 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 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 723
- Thomas, Caddy, Sketches for an ecclesiology of the deaneries of Sparham and Taverham, in Norfolk; together with some summary details of Ingworth Deanery, in the same county, Norwich; London: Jarrold and Sons; Hamilton Adams and Co., 1846, p. 170