Garboldisham No. 1 / Garbaudesham / Garboldesham / Gerboldesham

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design element - motifs - panel - blank - 8

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 October 2004 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/garboldisham1/garboldisham1.htm] [accessed 29 July 2009]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jonathan Plunkett, 2013

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 8 April 1996 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/G/Garboldisham%20St%20John%20Baptist%20church%20from%20SE%20%5B7302%5D%201996-04-08.jpg] [accessed 13 February 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2004

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 October 2004 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/garboldisham1/garboldisham1.htm] [accessed 29 March 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jonathan Plunkett, 2013

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 8 April 1996 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/G/Garboldisham St John Baptist church int E [7303] 1996-04-08.jpg] [accessed 13 February 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font and cover at the west end of the nave, centre aisle

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2004

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 October 2004 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/garboldisham1/garboldisham1.htm] [accessed 29 March 2013]

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2004

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 October 2004 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/garboldisham1/garboldisham1.htm] [accessed 29 July 2009]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15056GAR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Church Road, Garboldisham, Norfolk, IP22 2SE
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 6 km S of East Harling
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Giltcross [aka Guiltcross]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 13th century [basin only] -- 19th century [base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: a similar basin at Forncett St. Peter's
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1996; and to Simon Knott, www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font
Blomefield (1805-1810) notes two churches here: 1) "The Church of St. John Baptist is a good building, having the nave, two isles, with the chapels at their east ends, north vestry, and north porch, leaded, its chancel thatched, a tall square tower, and six bells; the church, isles, and chancel are ancient, but the tower and north porch are not so, being built about 1500"; and, 2) "All-Saints Church stands north of St. John's about half a furlong, or somewhat more, and was officiated in till the death of Mr. Vilet in 1726, from which time service was left off by degrees; and upon a petition of the patrons, incumbent, and parishioners, in 1734, license was obtained of the Bishop to suffer it to dilapidate, upon which the roof of the nave was unthatched, and that of the north isle unleaded, and both were taken down, the font and seats pulled up, the five bells were taken down, all which, with the other materials, (except the least bell, which was carried to St. John's,) were sold, and the money applied to repair and beautify St John's church". [cf Index entry for Garboldisham No. 2]. The first reported rector for St. John's church in Blomefield (ibid.) is Robert de Bernham, priest, in 1314, but there was a t least one earlier one, "Robert, the priest of Garboldesham", entered without a date. Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Font. Octagonal, with square roll-moulded panels to the C13 bowl. The stem is C19." Illustrated in Knott (2004). The basin panels are blank, like those on the font at Forncett St. Peter's, for instance; on a modern octagonal stem and plinth. The wooden cover is an octagonal moulded low dome with a cross finial; probably 19th-century as well. [NB: the church of All Saints has been in ruins since the 18th century and we have no information on its font]

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 360380 5806954

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
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.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999