King's Lynn No. 4 / Lena / Lenne / Lun / Lunea

Pevsner & Wilson (1999) note a font made of artifical stone, dated 1875, in this church. Their entry for North Runcton (ibid.) reads: "Font. Marble vase type installed in 1907 from St. Margaret, King's Lynn." The Parish site of North Runcton [http://www.runctonweb.co.uk/tour/churchmore.html] [accessed 13 August 2009] illustrates a baluster-type late font with the caption: "The font, originally in St Margaret's Church in King's Lynn". It is of the usual baluster-type design of the 17th-18th century -but probably of later date- with a small hemispherical basin with a big lip rim, decorated underbowl, and many mouldings and ribbing on the pedestal base. The font presently at St. Margaret's is illustrated in Knott (2005), who comments: "the font is […] not the best example of 19th century work, although it looks rather imposing on its high pedestal." [NB: St. Margaret's fabric goes back to Norman times but we have no information on the original font -- cf. Index entry for King's Lynn No. 5 for a possible font of the 16th century].