Toft Monks / Monks Tofts / Toft

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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol - 4

Scene Description: on alternate sides of the basin; on the left panel is St. John's eagle; an agel in the centre; (St. Mark's lion on the right?)

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/toftmonks/toftmonks.htm] [accessed 1 September 2009]

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angel - demi-figure - 4

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/toftmonks/toftmonks.htm] [accessed 1 September 2009]

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angel - head - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/toftmonks/toftmonks.htm] [accessed 1 September 2009]

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animal - mammal - lion - sejant - 4

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/toftmonks/toftmonks.htm] [accessed 1 September 2009]

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design element - architectural - buttress - 4

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/toftmonks/toftmonks.htm] [accessed 1 September 2009]

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/toftmonks/toftmonks.htm] [accessed 1 September 2009]

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 28 May 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/T/Toft Monks St Margaret's church tower [5811] 1977-05-28.jpg] [accessed 17 September 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - ceiling - detail

Scene Description: notice the centre of the beam, where the hook up for the font cover rigging was

Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken 28 May 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/T/Toft Monks St Margaret's church interior W [5812] 1977-05-28.jpg] [accessed 17 September 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font and cover at the far end

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/toftmonks/toftmonks.htm] [accessed 1 September 2009]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Beam across the nave formerly supported the font cover"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 28 May 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/T/Toft Monks St Margaret's church interior W [5812] 1977-05-28.jpg] [accessed 17 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/toftmonks/toftmonks.htm] [accessed 1 September 2009]

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view of font and cover

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of font cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/toftmonks/toftmonks.htm] [accessed 1 September 2009]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15226TOF

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret

Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]

Church Location: Pound Lane, Toft Monks, Norfolk NR34 0EX

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 7 km N of Beccles, 18 km SW of Great Yarmouth

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Clavering

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

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 photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in May 1977

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for Toft [Monks] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TM4295/toft-monks/] [accessed 20 October 2015], one of which mentions two churches and "0.26 church lands" in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church of Toft is dedicated to St. Margaret: two parts of it were appropriated to the abbey of Preaux, by William Turbus Bishop of Norwich, and confirmed by John de Gra, Bishop, Ao. 1181, and were valued at 20 marks, and the third part was a rectory valued at 10 marks: the two appropriated parts always passed with the manor belonging to Preaux abbey, and the 3d part was held by a rector, who in Edward the First's time [i.e., 1272-1307] had a manse and 30 acres of land". The present font here is described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Font. C15. Against the stem four lions; against the bowl four angels in crinkly clouds and the signs of the four Evangelists.- Font cover. C17, probably not the one which required the elaborate beam above." Illustrated in Knott (2005). The basin sides are deeply carved but much eroded; the angels do not appear to hold any objects, unlike on many of the East Anglian fonts of the period; the underbowl has the usual two levels: angel heads at the angles (very deteriorated) and rosettes on the sides below; the pedestal is the usual octagonal-to-square with seated lions at the angles and buttresses at the sides; moulded lower base. The wooden cover has a crown-shaped base and a low octagonal pyramidal upper volume with carved sides; knob finial. [NB: we have no information on the baptismal font of the ca.1300 church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.501234, 1.572809

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 30′ 4.44″ N, 1° 34′ 22.11″ E

UTM: 31U 403123 5817747

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-century?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

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: 2009-09-01 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

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