Chedgrave No. 2 . Chatgrave
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angel - holding shield - blank shield - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2009 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1499583] [accessed 3 March 2014]
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2009 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1499583] [accessed 3 March 2014]
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design element - architectural - arch or window - cinquefoiled - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2009 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1499583] [accessed 3 March 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15014CHE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century [re-cut in 1845], Perpendicular [altered?]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints [originally from Norwich St. Julian's?]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Hardley Road, Chedgrave, Norfolk NR14 6NF
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 15 km SE of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Loddon
Additional Comments: altered font (the present one: re-cut in 1845)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Chedgrave [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TM3699/chedgrave/] [accessed 3 March 2014], one of which mentions a church int it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes; "The Church was a rectory dedicated to All-Saints, and being granted by the Lady Cassandra Bainard to the priory of Buttley was appropriated thereto" [NB: the Index Monasticus (1821: 94) gives the date 1271 associated with Lady Cassandra Baynard [sic]]. Pevsner & Wilson (1999) write: "Brought from St Julian, Norwich, C15 but re-cut in 1845." Knott (2005. 2009) writes: "The font is a fairly run-of-the-mill recut late medieval bowl with angels holding shields, set on a 19th Century base. Can it really have come from St Julian's church in Norwich, as Pevsner suggests? The font there, of course, came from the redundant church of All Saints nearer to the centre of the city." The octagonal basin has demi-angels holding blank shields on the panels;moulded underbowl; the pedestal base is decorated with cinquefoil arches/windows; moulded lower base. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with ring handle; modern. [cf. Index entry for Chedgrave No. 1 for an earlier font here].
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 397188 5822296
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.54103, 1.48399
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 32′ 27.71″ N, 1° 29′ 2.36″ 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. 10: 122-127 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78641] [accessed 3 March 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. 262