Kessingland / Kessingalanda

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B01: Apostle or saint - St. Edmund

Scene Description: a/p identification in church guide & local info

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

B02: human figure - female - Queen Isabella

Scene Description: a/p identification in church guide & local info

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

B03: Virgin Mary - Madonna and Christ-child

Scene Description: a/p identification in church guide & local info

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

B04: human figure - female - Blanche of Navarre

Scene Description: a/p identification in church guide & local info

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

B05: human figure - male - historical figure - Edmund Crouchback, earl of Lancaster

Scene Description: a/p identification in church guide & local info

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

B06: Apostle or saint - St. Francis of Assisi

Scene Description: a/p identification in church guide & local info

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

B07: Apostle or saint - St. Clare

Scene Description: a/p identification in church guide & local info

B08: human figure - female - Isabella Plantagenet

Scene Description: a/p identification in church guide & local info

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

angel - showing wings - 8

Scene Description: one at each angle of the underbowl

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade - Ogee arches - cusped and crocketed - 8

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design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches - crocketed - 8

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

human figure - standing - in an arch - Gothic arch

Scene Description: One on each of the eight sides of the stem of the base

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal

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view of church exterior - south portal - east side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - east side - spandrel

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view of church exterior - south portal - west side - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - west spandrel

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Edmund's church in Kessingland. St Edmund's is a large church adjoined by a vast churchyard..The tall tower - it once had a beacon at its top, serving as a landmark for passing ships - and (the ruined) south aisle date from the 15th century, and the nave as we see it today was rebuilt in the 17th century. The chancel dates from the 20th century. The C15 font is described as being one of the finest in Suffolk. The church contains several interesting stained glass windows, the east window link being by the Kempe (of London) workshop."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2087932] [accessed 3 December 2016]

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view of church exterior - west tower

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by Trevor Harris [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3130316] [accessed 3 December 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2087937] [accessed 3 December 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2087950] [accessed 3 December 2016]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of an engraving in Suckling (1846)

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2087951] [accessed 3 December 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00363KES

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Edmund

Church Patron Saints: St. Edmund the Martyr [aka Edmund of East Anglia]

Church Location: Church Rd, Kessingland, Suffolk NR33 7SQ, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off the A12, about 7 km S of Lowestoft

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Lothing [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Mutford

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, S side

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: designed by Richard Russell

Church Notes: Beautiful west doorway has St. Edmund enthroned in the upper centre, a censing angel to each side; many other motifs on the arches: Tudor roses, shields, fish, anchor, heart, etc. The tower is original of the 15th century but the rest is of different later dates.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for Kessingland [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TM5286/kessingland/] [accessed 3 December 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Baptismal font noted with an engraving in Suckling (1846-1848): "The eight sides of this font are richly ornamented and deeply recessed, and in each niche is placed the figure of a saint. In that which faces the body of the church [E side?] sits a figure of St. Edmund, holding the peak of his beard with his right hand. The left hand, which formerly grasped an arrow, is now broken off, and the entire font bears evident marks of puritanical zeal." In Parker (1855) as Perpendicular [NB: the entry above reports the name of the first registered vicar in 1307 as Adam of Doncaster, proof of an earlier church here, of whose font we have no information]. Described and illustrated in Cautley (1982) as one of the most beautiful fonts of the 14th century in the county. The local church guide pamphlet (Brown & Cherry, 1996) informs that the font, "one of the finest in Suffolk, was designed by Richard Russell, the architect of the Tower" [i.e., the Tower of London], and notes that each side of the basin is framed in a High Gothic arch and contains a figure: 1)St. Edmund; 2)Queen Isabella; 3)Madonna and Child; 4)Blanche of Navarre; 5)Edmund Crouchback, earl of Lancaster; 6)St. Francis of Assisi; 7)St. Clare; 8)Isabella Plantagent [identification and order of the figures from on-site notes, local info. and church guide pamphlet, p. 5]. The underbowl has angels with open wings all around. The stem of the base has each side also containing a figure, standing, framed in a High Gothic arch. There is no record of the identity of the base figures.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.418154, 1.711869

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 25′ 5.35″ N, 1° 42′ 42.73″ E

UTM: 31U 412397 5808329

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead lining

Rim Thickness: 15 cm* (19 cm* at the corners)

Diameter (inside rim): 60-61 cm*

Basin Depth: 32 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 50 cm*

Basin Total Height: 63 cm*

Height of Base: 65 cm*

Height of Central Column: 51 cm*

Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: 37 x 50 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 128 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 91 x 97 cm* (min.&max. diagonals of the octagon)

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: Flat octagonal wooden lid is modern

REFERENCES

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

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

Suckling, Alfred, The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk, with genealogical and architectural notices of its several towns and villages, London: John Weale [...], 1846-1848