Fundenhall / Fundahala / Fundehala / Fundenhale
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design element - patterns - crenellated
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symbol - shield - blank - in a cusped panel - 4
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design element - patterns - tracery - quatrefoiled
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design element - motifs - floral?
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font at the west end, centre aisle
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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angel - holding shield - 4
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1990198] [accessed 25 March 2013]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 15055FUN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Address: Church Lane, Fundenhall, Fundenhall, Norfolk, NR16 1AH
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just SE of Ashwellthorpe, 7 km SE of Wymondham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Depwade
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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Blomefield (1805-1810) writes; "F[undehale], At the Confessor's survey, belonged to one of his thanes named Burkart, who owned the chief part, and was patron of the church, which had then 24 acres of glebe [...] The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas, and was a rectory appendant to the manor [...] John de Creke was rector sometime before Norwich Domesday was made, and had a house and 40 acres of glebe, and it was valued at 15 marks with all the tithes", but Blomefield (ibid.) names "Ric. de Eye" as the first recorded rector here, putting John de Creke further down the chronological table, between 1270 and 1315. The present font here is noted in White"s Directory of 1883: "The font has figures of angels bearing shields, upon the shaft". Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Font. C15. Octagonal bowl with shields to alternate facets. Angels against the stem hold shields." Illustrated in Knott (2006). The octagonal basin is renellated around the upper side; between the shield sides are tracery panels; the underbowl is also decorated (floral motifs?); the stem is a cluster of four columns with decorated sides; on a two-step plinth. The wooden coveris octagonal and flat; 19th-century? [NB: the font looks remarkably sharp and clean for a 15th-century one; is it original, re-tooled or Victorian? -- we have no information on the font from the Domesday-time church here].
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 376006 5821271
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.527412, 1.172206
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 31′ 38.68″ N, 1° 10′ 19.94″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 5: 171-175 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78170] [accessed 25 March 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. 347
- White, William, History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk, [s.l.]: [printed for the author], 1883, [transcribed in http://www.origins.org.uk/genuki/NFK/places/f/fundenhall/white1883.shtml [accessed 29 July 2009]]