Eccles nr. Thetford / Bishop's Eccles / Eccles Episcopi
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 3 March 2009 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/eccles/eccles2.htm] [accessed 28 July 2009]
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design element - patterns - crenellated
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 3 March 2009 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/eccles/eccles2.htm] [accessed 28 July 2009]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 3 March 2009 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/eccles/eccles2.htm] [accessed 28 July 2009]
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human figure - head - 8
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 3 March 2009 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/eccles/eccles2.htm] [accessed 28 July 2009]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 March 2009 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/eccles/eccles2.htm] [accessed 28 July 2009]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 March 2009 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/eccles/eccles2.htm] [accessed 28 July 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 3 March 2009 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/eccles/eccles2.htm] [accessed 28 July 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15037ECC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, by the S entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Quidenham Road, Eccles, Norfolk, NR16 2PA
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A11, ENE of Thetford, N of Quidenham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Stropham
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for this Eccles in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG4128/eccles/] [accessed 23 July 2014], but neither mentions a church or cleric in it. Blomenfield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is dedicated to St. Mary. It hath a round tower and three bells; the nave is leaded, the chancel and north porch tiled; the south isle (which hath a roof distinct from the nave) is thatched." Blomenfield (ibid.) reports the first known rector here as "Simon de Ely, sub-deacon", incumbent in 1301, but mentions no font in this church. A font is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): Font. "Octagonal with heads under the bowl." Illustrated in Knott (2008). The basin has crenellation pattern around the upper sides, a round moulding around the lower end of the basin; heads at the angles of the underbowl; plain octagonal stem, moulded lower base, also octagonal. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 362151 5814666
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.464744, 0.970829
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 27′ 53.08″ N, 0° 58′ 14.98″ 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. 1: 405-411 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=77126] [accessed 26 February 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. 327