Anmer, in Sandringham estate / Anemere / Anmere

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symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - cusped quatrefoil

Scene Description: the re-cut panels of the basin [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 5 July 2007 by Brokentaco [www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/816100562/] [accessed 6 November 2013]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Mostly early to mid 14c. Excessively restored"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 16 June 1996 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/A/Anmer St Mary Virgin church from SE [7335] 1996-06-16.jpg] [accessed 6 November 2013

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph October 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/anmer/anmer.htm] [accessed 6 November 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: seen from the west end, with the font in the foreground -- the chancel screen appears oddly located now

Image Source: digital photograph October 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/anmer/anmer.htm] [accessed 6 November 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the chancel arch appears much displaced in this image

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 July 2007 by Brokentaco [www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/816100096/] [accessed 6 November 2013]

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view of font

Scene Description: the 18th-century font [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph October 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/anmer/anmer.htm] [accessed 6 November 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover - east side

Scene Description: the re-cut side of the font [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 5 July 2007 by Brokentaco [www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/816100562/] [accessed 6 November 2013]

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view of font and cover - west side

Scene Description: the side of the font that was not re-cut [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph October 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/anmer/anmer.htm] [accessed 6 November 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: at the west end of the nave

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 July 2007 by Brokentaco [www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/816100562/] [accessed 6 November 2013]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14972ANM

Church/Chapel: Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Anmer, Norfolk PE31 6RW

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located in the grounds of Anmer Hall, now part of the Sandrigham estate

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred and half of Freebridge

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 15th century [partially re-cut] / 19th century, Perpendicular [altered?] / Victorian?

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font [partially re-cut]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church and fonts; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in June 1996

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries in the Domesday survey for Anemere/Anmer [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF7329/anmer/] [accessed 6 November 2013], but neither mentions church or cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) reports that the advowson of the church at "Anemere" was involved in a fine levied "In the 6th year of King Henry III." [i.e., 1222], mentions the dedication of this church to St. Mary, and names "William de Anemere" as first recorded rector in the 22nd year of Edward I's reign [i.e., 1294]. Pevsner & Wilson (1999) inform that there are two fonts in this church, one Victorian, another 18th-century. Both are illustrated in Knott (2005). The English Heritage entry for this church [listed 5 June 1953] [www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-221384-church-of-st-mary-anmer-norfolk] [accessed 6 November 2013] reports "Recut C15 font with shields [and] C18 baluster font" in this church. The 'Victorian' font noted in Pevsner & Wilson is the same as the one described in English Heritage as "Recut C15 font"; we cannot at this point ascertain either way, as it would take a close examination of the basin interior, for example, to decide one way or the other. That said, the font is odd-looking because only one half of it was re-cut, the east half, leaving the panels of the west half un-cut; the re-cut panels show a blank shield in a cusped quatrefoil frame; the rest of the decoration consists of a number of mouldings down the underbowl and base on all sides of the font. What the rationale for such a treatment was is left to speculation, although one could easily think that it probably was a cost-related decision rather than one based on aesthetic onsiderations. [NB: we have no information on the original font of the Early English church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.834984, 0.578505

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 50′ 5.94″ N, 0° 34′ 42.62″ E

UTM: 31U 336887 5856662

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th century?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: round and flat, with metal decoration

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: 2009-07-09 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999