North Barsham / Norbarsam?

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view of font and cover

Source caption: "The church of All Saints - baptismal font [...] The interior was extensively restored during the 19th century and only one window in the south chancel wall is still original, as is the bowl of the C13 Purbeck marble font (seen here)."

Scene Description: Source caption: "The church of All Saints - baptismal font [...] The interior was extensively restored during the 19th century and only one window in the south chancel wall is still original, as is the bowl of the C13 Purbeck marble font (seen here)."

Image Source: digital photograph 19 May 2007 by Evelyn Simak [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/874638] [accessed 20 February 2023]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: only the basin is original; the base and plinth are modern [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2005 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/northbarsham/northbarsham.htm] [accessed 13 August 2009]

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 12

Scene Description: a pair on each side of the hexagonal basin

Image Source: digital photograph 19 May 2007 by Evelyn Simak [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/874638] [accessed 20 February 2023]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Small church in North Barsham"

Image Source: digital photograph 8 May 2012 by Richard Humphrey [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2935355] [accessed 20 February 2023]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "The church of All Saints - view west" -- showing the font in the southwest corner of the nave

Image Source: digital photograph 19 May 2007 by Evelyn Simak [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/874636] [accessed 20 February 2023]

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view of church interior - looking east

Source caption: "The church of All Saints - view east. The church is located in a meadow with only a couple of houses nearby. After the collapse of the tower, which took part of the nave with it, what remains of the building today is very small. The interior was extensively restored during the 19th century and only one window in the south chancel wall is still original, as is the bowl of the C13 Purbeck marble font. The pulpit dates from the 17th century."

Scene Description: Source caption: "The church of All Saints - view east. The church is located in a meadow with only a couple of houses nearby. After the collapse of the tower, which took part of the nave with it, what remains of the building today is very small. The interior was extensively restored during the 19th century and only one window in the south chancel wall is still original, as is the bowl of the C13 Purbeck marble font. The pulpit dates from the 17th century."

Image Source: digital photograph 19 May 2007 by Evelyn Simak [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/874623] [accessed 20 February 2023]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 15140BAR

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints

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

Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints

Church Address: North Barsahm, Barsham, Norfolk NR22 6AS, United Kingdom

Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B1105, near East Barsham, 8 km N of Fakenham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Wangford?

Additional Comments: altered font: only the basin is original

Font Notes: Click to view

Described erroneously as octagonal in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Font. Octagonal, C13, of Purbeck marble, with two shallow pointed arches to each side." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2005): "The font is a curious thing - it is an arcaded Purbeck marble job, familiar from hundreds of other churches - but when you look closely, you notice that it is hexagonal." Only the hexagonal basin, decorated with the characteristic pairs of pointed -almost round- arches on the sides, is original; the central shaft, six angle colonnettes, hexagonal lower base and plinth are all modern replacements. The wooden cover is hexagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle, also modern. Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble, Polygonal I Type (Octagonal): "bowl with one panel on each face; there are six subsidiary shafts" [source given: The Revd. H.A. Hand] [NB: as indicated in Knott [cf. supra] the basin is hexagonal; there is a pair of 'panels' on each of the six 'faces' of the basin].

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 354959 5860855

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.877819, 0.844716

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 52′ 40.15″ N, 0° 50′ 40.98″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)

Font Shape: hexagonal, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975, p. 75
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999, p. 564