Tacolneston / Tackelston / Tacolenston / Tacolnestuna / Tacolston

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - panel - rectangular - 8

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - pointed or cusped quatrefoil

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symbol - heart

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symbol - shield - blank

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font is visible on the left side of the image, in front of the curtaing that covers the access to the tower space

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view of font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15198TAC

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Norwich Road, Tacolneston, Tacolneston, Norfolk, NR16 1EF

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located on the B1113, SSW of Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Depwade

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

Century and Period: 17th - 18th century,

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "T[acolneston], Commonly called Tackelston, [...] belonged to Stigand the Bishop, in the Confessor's time [i.e., 1042-1066] The church is dedicated to all the Saints; when Norwich Domesday was wrote, Hugh de Dovedale was patron [...] The church was rebuilt about 1503, for there were about that time, many legacies given to the foundation of the church of Tacolneston. The tower is square and hath five bells in it; the nave and chancel are thatched, the south isle is leaded, and the south porch tiled." Blomefield (ibid.) names "Hugh de Dovedale, accolite" as the first recorded rector, in 1310." The present font in this church is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Font. Octagonal, with elementary motifs, perhaps C17." Illustrated in context in Knott (2006). The font consists of an octagonal basin with deeply-carved panels containing a variety of motifs: heart, quatrefoil, blank shield, etc., and a moulded underbowl, raised on a moulded octagonal pedestal base with blank rectangular panels on the sides, and a moulded lower base. Octagonal plinth. The Church of England site A Church Near you [www.achurchnearyou.com/tacolnestonallsaints/] [accessed 28 August 2009] mentions a 15th-century font, but it is an unlikely date for this font. [NB: we have no information on the font from the medieval church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.515694, 1.166496

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 30′ 56.5″ N, 1° 9′ 59.39″ E

UTM: 31U 375586 5819978

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: 2009-08-28 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

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