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TG2834 : St Botolph, Trunch, Norfolk - FontTG2834 : Trunch: St. Botolph's Church: The font (ca. 1350) and oak canopy (ca. 1500)

St Botolph's, Trunch

One of only four such font canopies (as opposed to covers) in England. The others are not far away at St Peter Mancroft in Norwich TG2208, at St Mary's in Luton TL0921 and at Durham Cathedral NZ2742.

"Trunch will always remain in one's mind as the church with the font canopy... The modest font is guarded by the glorious canopy of c. 1500 in two stages. It is encrusted with vegetable decoration and retains some of its original polychromy. The lower stage has six posts decorated with foliage trails of divers patterns. Vine, lily and thistle are recognisable. There are also twisted branches. This stage ends in a fan-like vault with a pendant and fields that are very much cusped. The upper stage has eight big, somewhat heavy, tripartite, hanging vaulted canopies. They are too broad to have contained only one figure each. They seem originally to have been connected with the posts below by flying buttresses. Crocketed ogee top." - Pevsner & Wilson, 1997