Eccles nr. Thetford / Bishop's Eccles / Eccles Episcopi

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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design element - patterns - crenellated

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head - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15037ECC
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Quidenham Road, Eccles, Norfolk, NR16 2PA
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
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 Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, by the S entrance
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of church and font
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.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.464744, 0.970829
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 27′ 53.08″ N, 0° 58′ 14.98″ E
UTM: 31U 362151 5814666

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
Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-07-28 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999