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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 February 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/707461] [accessed 14 March 2013]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ashill/ashill.htm] [accessed 9 July 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - architectural - arch-head - trefoiled - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 28 February 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/707461] [accessed 14 March 2013]
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symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 28 February 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/707461] [accessed 14 March 2013]
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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - in a quatrefoil - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 28 February 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/707461] [accessed 14 March 2013]
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human figure - in prayer
Scene Description: in one of the arches of the underbowl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 28 February 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/707461] [accessed 14 March 2013]
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human figure - male - head - bearded
Scene Description: in one of the arches of the underbowl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 5 April 2007 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ashill/ashill.htm] [accessed 9 July 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - west tower - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 14 April 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/A/Ashill St Nicholas' church tower 14c W door [5752] 1977-04-14.jpg] [accessed 10 June 2014]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 February 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/707440] [accessed 14 March 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 February 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/707459] [accessed 14 March 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 February 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/707456] [accessed 14 March 2013]
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design element - motifs - piping
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 28 February 2008 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/707461] [accessed 14 March 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14976ASH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Address: Church St (at Swaffham Road), Ashill, Norfolk, IP25 7AB
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5 km NNW of Watton, 10 km SE of Swaffham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Wayland
Font Notes:
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Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is dedicated to St. Nicholas, and at the time of Norwich Domesday, here was both rector and vicar, the latter at the presentation of the former, whose rectory was then a sinecure; but before 1300, the rector ceased presenting, and took the whole cure, and so made it an absolute rectory, and as such it continues to this day". Blomefield (ibid.) names "7 Rich. I. Thomas de Watton" as the first recorded rector here, in the seventh year of Richard I's reign, i.e., 1895, and does mention a font in, indirectly by giving the coat of arms on it: "Arg. a cross in a bordure sab. on the font." This same source cites the one Domesday entry for "Asscelea (fol. 285), without a mention of church or priest. The present font here is noted and illustrated in Knott (2007): "The traceried 14th century font has a big surprise: a bearded head looks out from under one of the panels." The font is of the design in which the basin tapers off seamlessly into the octagonal base, the underbowl decorated with trefoiled arch-heads, in one of which is a bearded male face; the sides of the basin alternate blank shields in quatrefoils with rosettes in quatrefoils; there is piping on the angles of the stem and lower base; two-step octagonal plinth. The wooden cover is octagonal, flat and plain; appears modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1977
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 349750 5830349
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.602355, 0.781334
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 36′ 8.48″ N, 0° 46′ 52.8″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 2: 349-355 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78078] [accessed 14 March 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.