Shouldham Thorpe / Carboisthorp / Shouldham Thorp

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 6 May 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1846432] [accessed 27 August 2013]

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design element - patterns - tracery

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 May 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1846432] [accessed 27 August 2013]

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design element - patterns - tracery

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 6 May 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1846432] [accessed 27 August 2013]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 28 October 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Shouldham Thorpe St Mary Virgin church SW [7287] 1995-10-28.jpg] [accessed 27 August 2013]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 March 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1737716] [accessed 27 August 2013]

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view of church exterior - west portal

Scene Description: photo caption: "Almost rebuilt in 1852, but the Norman doorway, formerly in the north porch, was rebuilt at the west end"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 28 October 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Shouldham Thorpe St Mary's Norman west door [5472] 1975-09-11.jpg] [accessed 27 August 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 September 2006 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/321480] [accessed 27 August 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 May 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1846430] [accessed 27 August 2013]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 May 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1846432] [accessed 27 August 2013]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15178SHO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Church Lane, Shouldham Thorpe, Norfolk, PE33 0ED

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 8 km NE of Downham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely

Historical Region: Hundred and half of Clackclose

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

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jontahan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1975 and 1995

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes; "S[houldham] T[horp]. In the grand survey, or Domesday book, it is called Carboisthorp [...] Hermerus de Ferrariis (of whom see in Wermegay) had seized on 80 acres of land, and 5 of meadow, possessed by 11 freemen, and the moiety of another, with a bordarer and 3 carucates valued at 17s. and the moiety of the church endowed with 16 acres valued at 12d. [...] The Church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary, has a nave, and chancel covered with lead, the tower was at the west end, with three bells, and fell down in 1724". The present font is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal, with a variety of tracery patterns." The font consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides covered in different tracery paterns on each panel; moulding at the upper rim, showing several repairs; graded underbowl chamfer; window tracery on the sides of the octagonal pedestal base; splaying lower base, also octagonal; octagonal plinth with kneeling stone. The wooden cover is octagonal, flat and plain, with metal decoration and ring handle; perhaps Victorian. [NB: we have no information on the font from the original 11th-century (?) church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.644577, 0.453753

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 38′ 40.48″ N, 0° 27′ 13.51″ E

UTM: 31U 327735 5835777

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

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