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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the 19th-century font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken June 2005 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/dissmary/dissmary.htm] [accessed 24 July 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15022DIS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Date: ca. 1300?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 32 km SW of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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The present baptismal font and tall wooden cover are illustrated in Knott (2005). The font is Victorian rendition of the popular Evangelists's octagonal design of the 15th century. The tall wooden cover stands at the rim on eight open colonnettes, the spire decorated with crocketed pinnacles; probably also 19th-century. The parish web site [http://www.dissparishchurch.org/history_home.htm] [accessed 24 July 2009] informs that "the font was made by local craftmen in 1857". [NB: the fabric of the church goes back to ca. 1300, but we have no information on the earlier font(s)]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of the modern font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 371218 5805122
REFERENCES
- Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.