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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
FontID: 15022DIS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 32 km SW of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Date: ca. 1300?
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of the modern 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)]
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]. Accessed: 2009-07-24 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.