Aslacton / Aslac / Aslaketuna / Aslington / Estington / Oslactuna

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Results: 10 records

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N/a: view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/aslacton/aslacton.htm] [accessed 26 March 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/aslacton/aslacton.htm] [accessed 9 July 2009]

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symbol - shield - blank - in a cusped panel - 8

Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/aslacton/aslacton.htm] [accessed 9 July 2009]

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/aslacton/aslacton.htm] [accessed 9 July 2009]

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Pre-conquest round tower"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 27 August 19767 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/A/Aslacton St Michael's church from SE [5717] 1976-08-27.jpg] [accessed 10 June 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the basin of the font is visible at the back (west), by the left (south) arcade

Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/aslacton/aslacton.htm] [accessed 26 March 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the font and cover visible on the foreground (west), left (south) side

Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/aslacton/aslacton.htm] [accessed 26 March 2013]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/aslacton/aslacton.htm] [accessed 9 July 2009]

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design element - motifs - floral

Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/aslacton/aslacton.htm] [accessed 9 July 2009]

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human figure - head - grotesque or fantastic - 4

Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2006 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/aslacton/aslacton.htm] [accessed 9 July 2009]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 14978ASL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael

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

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael

Church Notes: round-tower church

Church Address: Church Road, Aslacton, Norfolk, NR15 2JN

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

Directions to Site: Located 21 km SSW of Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Depwade

Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original Pre-Conquest church here)

Font Notes: Click to view

There are four entries for Ashlacton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TM1591/aslacton/] [accessed 10 June 2014], one of which reports a church and churchlands in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The church is dedicated to St. Michael the archangel, and was given by Roger Bigot to the priory of Thetford, of his foundation, to which it was appropriated, and no vicarage endowed, but was served, as it is now, by a parish chaplain or curate, it being a donative in the gift and nomination of the impropriator: there was a rectory-house and two carucates of glebe [...] The nave, south isle, and south porch, are leaded, the chancel tiled, the steeple is round, and hath five bells". [NB: Roger Bigod, one of the original knights of the Conquest, was the founder of Thetford Priory and died in 1107]. The present font is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "C15. Octagonal, with shields." Illustrated in Knott (2006). The octagonal basin has a blank shield in a cusped panel on each side; graded moulding on the underbowl chamfer; the stem is octagonal and plain between mouldings at top and bottom; the octagonal splaying lower base has floral motifs alternating with grotesque heads on the sides. Raised on an octagonal plinth. The wooden cover is octagonal, flat and plain; appears modern. [NB: we have no information on the font from the original church here].

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this church and font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1976

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 375978 5815512

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.475653, 1.173928

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 28′ 32.35″ N, 1° 10′ 26.14″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 5: 177-181 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78172] [accessed 25 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.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999, p. 184