Wilby nr. Attleborough
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
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BBL01: design element - motifs - tracery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wilby/wilby.htm] [accessed 8 September 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
BBU01: design element - patterns - crenellated
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wilby/wilby.htm] [accessed 8 September 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wilby/wilby.htm] [accessed 8 September 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 15264WIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A11, SSW of Attleborough
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this font
Font Notes:
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Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Big octagonal bowl. Up its lower half traceried gables. Top battlements." Illustrated in Knott (2006). On a plain octagonal stem and a lower base with two thin volumes: the upper is octagonal, the lower is square. Octagonal plinth. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with a finial that appears to be a stylised version of the four-ribs of the Jacobean fonts; Victorian?
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.46905, 0.989084
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 28′ 8.58″ N, 0° 59′ 20.7″ E
UTM: 31U 363404 5815111
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-09-08 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999