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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol - 4

Scene Description: the symbol for Mark, a winged lion, seen in the centre panel here, has survived only in part

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 11 September 1974 [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Stoke Holy Cross church font in churchyard [5420] 1974-09-11.jpg] [accessed 18 October 2015]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

design element - motifs - floral - 4

Scene Description: at least one of them is a large Tudor rose, seen here in the right panel of the basin

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 11 September 1974 [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Stoke Holy Cross church font in churchyard [5420] 1974-09-11.jpg] [accessed 18 October 2015]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

design element - motifs - floral - square flower - 8

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 11 September 1974 [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Stoke Holy Cross church font in churchyard [5420] 1974-09-11.jpg] [accessed 18 October 2015]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: at the top of the lower base

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 11 September 1974 [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Stoke Holy Cross church font in churchyard [5420] 1974-09-11.jpg] [accessed 18 October 2015]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 11 September 1974 [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Stoke Holy Cross church font in churchyard [5420] 1974-09-11.jpg] [accessed 18 October 2015]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

design element - motifs - tracery - varied

Scene Description: on the stem of the base; one of the circles, seen here on the left side, bottom, appears to contain a human head

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 11 September 1974 [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Stoke Holy Cross church font in churchyard [5420] 1974-09-11.jpg] [accessed 18 October 2015]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southeast view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph October 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/stokeholycross/stokeholycross.htm] [accessed 7 May 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph October 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/stokeholycross/stokeholycross.htm] [accessed 7 May 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph October 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/stokeholycross/stokeholycross.htm] [accessed 7 May 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the later font now in the church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2009 by Evelyn Simak [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1352083] [accessed 26 August 2009]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: outside the church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2009 by Evelyn Simak: [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1352101] [accessed 26 August 2009]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Stoke Holy Cross church font in churchyard [5420] 1974-09-11. 15c font standing outside under the tower."

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 11 September 1974 [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Stoke Holy Cross church font in churchyard [5420] 1974-09-11.jpg] [accessed 18 October 2015]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

INFORMATION

FontID: 15191STO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Cross

Church Patron Saints: The Holy Cross

Church Location: 2 Norwich Road, Stoke Holy Cross, Norfolk, NR14 8LR

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 8 km S of Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Humbleyard [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Henstede [aka Henstead]

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font / Evangelists' font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font. We are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this font, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in September 1974

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There are eleven entries for Stoke [Holy Cross] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TG2300/stoke-holy-cross/] [accessed 18 October 2015], three of which mention a church and church lands in each. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "Stoke. Commonly called Stoke Holy-Cross, anciently Cruche Stoke, from its parish church, which was dedicated to the honour of the Holy-Cross, was in many parts, belonging to the several manors of Shoteshams (fn. 1) Eaton, &c. (fn. 2) but the principal manor and church, which had 18 acres of glebe, then valued at 2s. per annum, belonged to Alwin of Thetford at the Confessor's survey, and to Roger Bigot at the Conqueror's [...] The church stands on a very great eminence; the west part of the nave (which is 53 feet long) is tiled and the east part leaded; the chancel is tiled, and is 23 feet long, and 20 feet broad, as is the nave; it hath a south porch tiled, but no isles; the steeple is square, about 50 feet high, and hath three bells." A font is mentioned in passing in Blomefield (ibid.) in relation to an inscription "on a brass by the font", without details of the font itself. The present font is reported in Pevsner & Wilson (1999) as being outside the church: "Font. C15, propped against the tower outside. Symbols of the four Evangelists against bowl panels, C15" [sic]. In his October 2006 visit to this church Simon Knott reports and illustrates: "a 15th century font, which is leaning up against the south-west corner of the nave, and appears to have been there for a century or more". The font consists of an octagonal basin decorated with the said symbols alternating with floral motifs on its sides, the underbowl chamfer also with floral motifs; there are tracery motifs on the octagonal stem; the splaying lower base has a square lower end and it fits against a small square plinth. The font is now exposed to the elements and, if Knott is right, it has been thus for a long time. It is badly eroded and cover in lichens, moss and vines. The font inside de church consists on an octagonal basin with pointed quatrefoiled panels on the sides, a moulded underbowl, and raised on an octagonal stem with a moulded lower base. It is completely covered in white-wash and it probably is of the 19th century. This font is located inside the church, at the W end of the nave, by the tower arch, S side of the centre aisle. [NB: we have no information on the font from the original Domesday-time church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.558716, 1.296945

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 33′ 31.38″ N, 1° 17′ 49″ E

UTM: 31U 384550 5824546

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

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: 2009-08-26 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.