Kirby Cane / Chirebeia / Churchebey / Kercheby / Kerkeby / Kirkebia / Kirkeby / Kirkeby Kam / Kirkeby-Kam

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animal - mammal - lion - head - in a cusped panel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 June 2009 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/kirbycane/kirbycane.htm] [accessed 10 August 2009]

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design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases - 8

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 June 2009 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/kirbycane/kirbycane.htm] [accessed 10 August 2009]

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design element - motifs - floral - 8

Scene Description: varied flowers

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 June 2009 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/kirbycane/kirbycane.htm] [accessed 10 August 2009]

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human figure - head - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 June 2009 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/kirbycane/kirbycane.htm] [accessed 10 August 2009]

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symbol - shield - blank - in a cusped panel - 4?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 June 2009 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/kirbycane/kirbycane.htm] [accessed 10 August 2009]

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view of basin - underbowl - detail

Scene Description: one of the heads on the underbowl

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 June 2009 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1342285] [accessed 11 September 2013]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 June 2009 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1342241] [accessed 11 September 2013]

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view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Scene Description: the Norman south portal, now enclosed in a later porch

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 14 August 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/K/Kirby Cane All Saints church Norman S door [5601] 1976-08-14.jpg] [accessed 11 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 5 May 1976 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/K/Kirby Cane All Saints church from SE [5554] 1976-06-05.jpg] [accessed 11 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southwest end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 June 2009 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1342245] [accessed 11 September 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 June 2009 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1342257] [accessed 11 September 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font and cover are visible at the west end, by the tower entranceway

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 June 2009 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1342277] [accessed 11 September 2013]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15109KIR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Loddon Road (Wash Lane), Kirby Cane, Norfolk NR35 2HN

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 3 km NNE of Ellingham, 3 km NW of Beccles, 5 km NE of Bungay, 6 km S of Loddon

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Clavering

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end

Date: ca. 1360-1380?

Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this font; we are also grateful to Jonathen Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1976

Church Notes: round-tower church [Norman round tower?]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The Domesday entry for "Kercheby", transcribed and translated in Blomefield (1805-1810), reports "a church endowed with 20 acres in free alms, and 2 parts of a church endowed with 14 acres". Blomefield (ibid.) writes about the Kirkeby church of his time: "The Church is a rectory dedicated to All-Saints, and the patronage belonged to the abbot of Bury's manor. [...] In 1268, Laurence de Monteforti was instituted rector, presented by Richard de Cam." Blomefield (ibid.) makes an interesting, and perhaps etymologically questionable, comment about the toponym 'Kirkeby', basing his argument on the shaky spelling of the Domesday text: "It is generally said that towns beginning with Kirke, signifies that their site is by some church, [...] but it rather is a compound word, and wrote, as in Domesday, Ker, Che, or Ke; Kerkstead is wrote Ker-chessstead, Ches, or Che, signifies always water, and Ker, is tbe same as Car; thus Carbroke is wrote Cherebroc, and sets forth a clear water, as Kercheby does a dwelling by clear water." Bell (1927) lists an 1839 water-colour drawing of this font by Miles Edmund Cotman in the Bulwer Collection. Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Against the stem eight shafts. Against the underside of the bowl eight heads (the hairstyle of one is typical of c. 1360-80). Against the bowl shields in cusped fields." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2009): "The font is a fine example from the 14th century. [Its] traceried panels were probably painted once, and the heads peering from beneath the bowl are all different. The font cover remembers the Coronation of Edward VII [i.e., 1902], the first there had been of a British monarch in 65 years." The cusped panels of the basin sides have shields, lion head, etc. inscribed in them; human heads at the angles of the underbowl, flowers on the sides between them; the colonnettes of the base have moulded capitals and bases. The wooden cover is a modern rendering of the classic Jacobean design of a flat flatform with raised ribs. [NB: the church reported in Domesday [cf. supra] may have existed at the time when Ælgiva [aka Ælgiva Ymma / Emma?] gave "The principal manor in this town was in the abbey of St. Edmund of Bury [...] about the year 1020, when King Canute, her lord, was a great benefactor to that abbey." (Blomefield (ibid.) -- we have no information on the earlier font here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.493151, 1.494201

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 29′ 35.35″ N, 1° 29′ 39.13″ E

UTM: 31U 397769 5816956

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 20th-century?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Bell, C.F., Miles Edmund Cotman (1810-1858): with a catalogue of fifty drawings by him, selected from the Bulwer Collection, London: Walker's Galleries, [1927?]

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: 2009-08-10 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

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