Waldingfield Parva / Little Waldingfield

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B01: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 December 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/lwalding.htm] [accessed 10 November 2009]

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B02: Apostle or saint - Church Father?

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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B03: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark

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B04: Apostle or saint - Church Father?

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B05: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Luke

B06: Apostle or saint - Church Father?

B07: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John

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B08: Apostle or saint - Church Father?

BU01: angel - head - 8

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view of church exterior

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font ans cover at the west end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 December 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/lwalding.htm] [accessed 10 November 2009]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00318WAL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Lawrence

Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]

Church Location: Little Waldingfield, Sudbury CO10 0SW, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1787 210434

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Little Waldingfield [aka Waldingfield Parva], not to be mistaken with Waldringfield, is on the B1115, just off the A1141 from Hadleigh to Bury St Edmunds.

Historical Region: Hundred of Carlford [Domesday]

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

Century and Period: 14th century (late?), Decorated

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

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entried for Waldingfield [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TM2844/waldringfield/] [accessed 21 May 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Parker (1855) writes: "Font, an octagon, with angels in the panels of the bowl; also with angels supporting it". Noted in Cautley (1982) as a baptismal font of the 14th century that "has lost the figures round the shaft, but the bowl has very interesting figures of seated monks studying [cf. Nichols infra]. The other four panels have the evangelists emblems." Nichols (1994) mentions Waldingfield Parva with Stoke-by-Nayland as having the four Evangelists on alternate basin sides with the doctors of the Church. She cites Cautley (1982) but points out that Cautley mistakes the doctors of the Church with monks studying. Knott (2007) provides also a similar description from Mortlock's guide and one from the church's own guidebook, which adds that there are angels on the underbowl and that there originally there were lions on the four remaining brackets of the base shaft; this guide also claims that the figures between the lions were no doubt woodwoses (i.e., wild men of the woods), each holding a staff [cf. BSI files, Knott's 2007 entry in Suffolk Churches, and an e-mail from S.Knott, Dec. 27, 1999)]. [NB: Parker (1855) notes an entry for Waldingfield All Saints', with an octagonal Perpendicular font "with emblems of the Evangelists; we have not been able to find a church with that dedication in either Great or Little Waldinfield in Suffolk, but it is likely that Parker's entry refers to this church and font]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TL9241745158] notes: "C15 flint and stone church […] The Cl5 octagonal font is carved with the emblems of the 4 Evangelists and monks in Benedictine habit."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.071, 0.804

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 4′ 15.6″ N, 0° 48′ 14.4″ E

UTM: 31U 349491 5771211

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: pedestal font

Basin Interior Shape: rectangular

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal, flat and plain; modern

REFERENCES

Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982

Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-11-10 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.

Nichols, Ann Eljenholm, Seeable Signs: The Iconography of the Seven Sacraments 1350-1544, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1994

Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855