Aldeby / Aldebi / Aldby / Aldeburg / Aldeburgh
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph February 2005 taken by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/aldeby/aldeby.htm] [accessed 9 July 2009]
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design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose - 4
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph February 2005 taken by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/aldeby/aldeby.htm] [accessed 9 July 2009]
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design element - motifs - floral - square flower - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph February 2005 taken by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/aldeby/aldeby.htm] [accessed 9 July 2009]
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human figure - head - 8
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph February 2005 taken by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/aldeby/aldeby.htm] [accessed 9 July 2009]
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symbol - shield - blank - in a cusped panel - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph February 2005 taken by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/aldeby/aldeby.htm] [accessed 9 July 2009]
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design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph February 2005 taken by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/aldeby/aldeby.htm] [accessed 9 July 2009]
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view of church exterior - west portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 17 April 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/A/Aldeby St Mary's church Norman west door [5495] 1976-04-17.jpg] [accessed 9 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - north porch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 12 May 1996 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/A/Aldeby St Mary Virgin church north porch [7311] 1996-05-12.jpg] [accessed 9 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 12 May 1996 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/A/Aldeby St Mary Virgin church from NW [7310] 1996-05-12.jpg] [accessed 9 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 12 May 1996 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/A/Aldeby St Mary Virgin church interior east [7312] 1996-05-12.jpg] [accessed 9 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph February 2005 taken by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/aldeby/aldeby.htm] [accessed 9 July 2009]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 14971ALD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish [Priory] 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: The Street, Aldeby, Norfolk NR34 0AB
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5 km NE of Beccles, 25 WSW of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Clavering
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original 11thC church here)
Font Notes:
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The Domesday entry for "Aldeburg" in Blomefield (1805-1810) reports "a church, with 12 acres [...] King Henry I. by his præispe commands that the church, all the land and men, &c. which Agnes de Belso gave to the monks of the Holy Trinity of Norwich, in Aldebi, be held by them in perpetual alms [...] The Church was dedicated to St. Mary, and appropriated by Bishop Herbert, to the priory of Norwich, being valued at 16 marks" [NB: this bishop would be Herbert de Losinga (+1119), originally bishop of Thetford but moved the see to Norwich ca. 1095]. The present font is described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "C15. Octagonal. Eight shafts against the stem, four shields and four flowers in cusped fields against the bowl." Described and illustrated in Knott (2005): "The 15th century font, in common with others locally, has small peasant heads projecting from beneath the bowl, and a Jacobean cover." Between the heads of the underbowl are a variety of floral motifs. The wooden cover, painted white, consists of an octagonal platform on which stand eight scrolled ribs around a pivot; round finial. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original church here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, Georges Plunkett, in 1976 and 1996; we are also grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 405440 5815622
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.48255, 1.607536
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 28′ 57.18″ N, 1° 36′ 27.13″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 8: 1-4 / [w ww.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78392] [accessed 9 September 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. 178