Ashby St. Mary / Ascebei / Asebei / Assebei

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Results: 10 records

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2005 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ashbystmary/ashbystmary.htm] [accessed 9 July 2009]

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design element - motifs - geometric - 8

Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2005 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ashbystmary/ashbystmary.htm] [accessed 9 July 2009]

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view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Scene Description: the Norman portal

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 25 March 1940 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/A/Ashby St Mary's church Norman south door [3364] 1940-03-25.jpg] [accessed 14 February 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: the Norman portal

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 25 March 1940 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/A/Ashby St Mary's church Norman south door [3363] 1940-03-25.jpg] [accessed 14 February 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 25 March 1940 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/A/Ashby St Mary's church from SW [3433] 1940-05-25.jpg] [accessed 14 February 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 25 May 1940 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/A/Ashby St Mary's church from SE [3432] 1940-05-25.jpg] [accessed 14 February 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2005 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ashbystmary/ashbystmary.htm] [accessed 6 March 2012]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2005 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ashbystmary/ashbystmary.htm] [accessed 6 March 2012]

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view of church interior - chancel

Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2005 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ashbystmary/ashbystmary.htm] [accessed 6 March 2012]

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design element - architectural - column or piping

Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2005 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ashbystmary/ashbystmary.htm] [accessed 9 July 2009]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 14975ASH

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century, Restoration

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin

Church Address: Church Road, Ashby St Mary, Norfolk, NR14 7BJ

Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located 2 km N of Thurton, 5 NNW of Loddon, 12 km SE of Norwich [NB: not to be confused with Ashby St. Mary's in Suffolk, near the Norfolk border]

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Loddon [aka Lodding]

Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Norman original church here)

Font Notes: Click to view

This Ashby has five entries in the Domesday Book [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG3202/ashby-st-mary/] [accessed 14 February 2014], but there is no mention of a church or cleric in any of them. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church of Ashby is a rectory, dedicated to St. Mary [...] and the rector had a manse, with 30 acres of land, land, in the reign of Edward I [i.e., 1272-1307] [...] and Sir Thomas de Helgeton was lord and patron. [...] Henry de Len, rector"; this last name given sine data but quite likely towards the 1290s, as the next rector, Roger de Breton, took over in 1301. The present font and its cover are noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Font. Octagonal. With its elementary geometrical motifs it could be of the 1660s.-- Fontcover. Jacobean, with simple strapwork." Knott (2005), however, writes: "The font is the great curiosity - as at nearby Thurton, it is a late 17th century replacement, probably after the original was removed from the church during the Commonwealth. Oddly, the apparently Jacobean font cover is nothing of the sort, but a Victorian confection. It is interesting, though perhaps a little unlikely, that the Ashby Victorians were happy to match an existing item when the style of it must have been anathema to them." [NB: the fabric of the church goes back to Norman times, but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this church and font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1940

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 393966 5825395

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.568264, 1.435522

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 34′ 5.75″ N, 1° 26′ 7.88″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century? / 17th century?

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 10: 93-95 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78633] [accessed 14 February 2014]
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. 181