North Barsham / Norbarsam?

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

a pair on each side of the hexagonal basin
Scene Description: a pair on each side of the hexagonal basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
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

Source caption: "Small church in North Barsham"
Scene Description: Source caption: "Small church in North Barsham"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Humphrey, 2012
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 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."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
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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view of church interior - looking west

Source caption: "The church of All Saints - view west" -- showing the font in the southwest corner of the nave
Scene Description: Source caption: "The church of All Saints - view west" -- showing the font in the southwest corner of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
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 font and cover

only the basin is original; the base and plinth are modern [cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: only the basin is original; the base and plinth are modern [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2005 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/northbarsham/northbarsham.htm] [accessed 13 August 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

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)."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph 19 May 2007 by Evelyn Simak [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/874638] [accessed 20 February 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

INFORMATION

FontID: 15140BAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: North Barsahm, Barsham, Norfolk NR22 6AS, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
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?
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, S side
Century and Period: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font
Font Notes:
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].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.877819, 0.844716
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 52′ 40.15″ N, 0° 50′ 40.98″ E
UTM: 31U 354959 5860855

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]. Accessed: 2009-08-13 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999