Sisland / Sislanda / Sizeland / Syseland

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angel - demi-figure - hands together in prayer - 8

Image Source: digital photograph January 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/sisland/sisland.htm] [accessed 25 August 2009]

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angel - head - 8

Scene Description: some of them broken off or damaged

Image Source: digital photograph January 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/sisland/sisland.htm] [accessed 25 August 2009]

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animal - mammal - lion - sejant - 4

Image Source: digital photograph January 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/sisland/sisland.htm] [accessed 25 August 2009]

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animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant - 2

Image Source: digital photograph January 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/sisland/sisland.htm] [accessed 25 August 2009]

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design element - architectural - buttress - 4

Image Source: digital photograph January 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/sisland/sisland.htm] [accessed 25 August 2009]

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design element - motifs - floral - 2

design element - motifs - floral - 8

Image Source: digital photograph January 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/sisland/sisland.htm] [accessed 25 August 2009]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Built in 1761 on the south side of a preceding church which was struck by lightning. Nave and chancel of brick, whitewashed and thatched. The bell-turret weatherboarded, with pinnacles and a spike"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 23 May 1992 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Sisland St Mary's church from SE [6802] 1992-05-23.jpg] [accessed 5 March 2014]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph January 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/sisland/sisland.htm] [accessed 5 March 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font and cover are visible at the west end of the nave, behind the right [north] bank of benches

Image Source: digital photograph January 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/sisland/sisland.htm] [accessed 5 March 2014]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph January 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/sisland/sisland.htm] [accessed 25 August 2009]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15180SIS

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Sisland, Norfolk, NR14 6EF

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off (SW) the A146, near Loddon, on the lane to Thurton

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Loddon

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, N side of the aisle [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for the information on and photographs of this church and font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this re-built church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in May 1992

Church Notes: "In 1761, the main structure of the church was badly damaged by a lightning strike, as is graphically described in a letter to the Norwich Mercury dated July 16th. The church was then almost totally repaired in brick as is shown in the Churchwardens accounts. Parts of the ruined structure were incorporated into the new building which, with a few exceptions, is that which survives today." [source: www.achurchnearyou.com/sisland-st-mary/] [accessed 5 March 2014]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for Sisland [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TM3498/sisland/] [accessed 5 March 2014], one of which mentions half a church and church lands in it. The earliest reference to this church or its advowson in Blomefield (1805-1810) appears to be: "In the reign of Edward I. Edmund de Hoo was patron of the church, which was a rectory, valued at 7 marks. The rector had a manse and 30 acres". The present font is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Font. Octagonal, C15. Against the stem four lions, against the bowl two lions, four demi-figures of angels, and two flowers.- Font cover. Simple, C17." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2005) as a survivor of an earlier church on this site: "This church is built on the site of its medieval predecessor, which was destroyed by lightning on Sunday 12th July 1761 at three o'clock in the afternoon, during 'divine service', that is to say one of those interminable sermons so beloved of 18th century Rectors. The church appears to have been rebuilt almost immediately, the 1761 accounts detailing the purchase of 4000 bricks and 1100 tiles. The former north wall was reused, the south side being rebuilt, and the remains of the north transept chapel left as a buttress. The exterior is a sweet example of that century's Gothick […] one single survival from the earlier building in the form of the 15th century font in the East Anglian style". [NB: the angels of the basin sides are rather crude and appear to hold their hands together in prayer; the lions on the two sides are not the best either; is this an original font? was it recarved?] [NB: we have no information on the font from the Domesday-time church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.534507, 1.455008

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 32′ 4.22″ N, 1° 27′ 18.03″ E

UTM: 31U 395207 5821612

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-century?

Material: wood,

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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: 2009-08-25 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

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