Flordon / Florenduna / Floure Downs
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
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Results: 5 records
view of basin
Scene Description: the re-cut (?) and repaired basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 3 March 2008 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/flordon/flordon.htm] [accessed 29 July 2009]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 3 March 2008 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/flordon/flordon.htm] [accessed 20 March 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the top of the font cover in the foreground
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 3 March 2008 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/flordon/flordon.htm] [accessed 20 March 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font at the back (west end), centre aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 3 March 2008 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/flordon/flordon.htm] [accessed 20 March 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 March 2008 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/flordon/flordon.htm] [accessed 29 July 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 15047FLO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels
Church Location: Long Lane, Flordon, Norfolk NR15 1RN
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located near Newton Flotman, 12 km SSW of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Humbleyard / Humble-Yard
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century [basin only] [re-cut] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font
Church Notes: [formerly a round-tower church]
Font Notes:
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There are eight entries for Flordon [variant spelling] in te Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM1897/flordon/] [accesse 1 June 2020], none of which reports a church in it; one shows as having "Alfred the priest" as lord in 1966, a name that shows up in Domesday as being lord of two other places in Norfolk as well. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes; "The church is dedicated to St. Michael [...] The steeple is round and hath three bells, the church is 24 yards long and 6 broad, and hath no isles; the nave and chancel are tiled"; the first recorded rector here is given as "John de Foxton", in 1305. The present font here is illustrated in Knott (2008). The octagonal basin with plain tapering sides appears to be an old one (medieval?) that has been repaired and re-cut; the base is probably a modern replacement.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.528827, 1.226279
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 31′ 43.78″ N, 1° 13′ 34.6″ E
UTM: 31U 379678 5821337
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
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: 2009-07-29 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.