Badingham / Baddingham

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B01: sacrament - baptism

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

B02: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ

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B03: sacrament - extreme unction

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

B04: sacrament - penance - confession

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B05: sacrament - eucharist

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B06: sacrament - confirmation

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B07: sacrament - holy orders

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B08: sacrament - marriage

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BUF01: angel - Princedoms (with sword and shield)

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

BUF02: cleric - bishop - with book

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BUF03: cleric - priest

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BUF04: cleric - bishop - with scroll

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BUF05: angel - holding the instruments of the Passion - holds shield and scourge?

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BUF06: cleric - bishop - with book

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BUF07: cleric - with staff

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BUF08: cleric - bishop - with book and scroll

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view of church exterior - south porch - detail

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view of church exterior - south porch - detail - atlante

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view of church exterior - south porch - detail - rabbit head

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view of church exterior - southwest view

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Bond (1908)

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

view of font in context - west side

Scene Description: at the end of the nave, looking east -- Source caption: "Font and nave, St. John the Baptist's church. The nave roof and the Seven Sacraments font are Badingham's greatest treasures, but the visitor will probably be first struck by the fact that the nave floor slopes upward: rising twenty five inches from the font to the chancel steps."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2008 by Jonathan Billinger [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/766284] [accessed 25 July 2016]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 00734BAD

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: Low Street, Badingham, Suffolk IP13 8JX

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Badingham (St. John's) is off the A1120, about 6-7 km N of Framlingham; the church is usually kept open [S. Knott's WEB page]

Historical Region: Bishop's Hundred [in Domesday]

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

Date: ca. 1500?

Century and Period: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Badingham in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TM3068/badingham/] [accessed 25 July 2016]; ir mentions a church and church lands in it. Gough (1792) lists this as one of a group of fonts "in the Eastern part of Suffolk" ornamented with the Seven Sacraments. In Cautley (1949) and (1982). Described in Parker (1855). Nichols (1994) dates the Badingham font to the end of the 15th cent. or first quarter of the 16th.; she also reports "crude attempts to re-feature mutilated faces". Noted in Bond (1908). Octagonal mounted font of the Seven-sacrament group, one of the best extant examples according to most sources. The sides of the basin include: 1)Baptism; 2)Baptism of Christ with John the Baptist and an angel present; 3)Extreme Unction; 4)Penance; 5)Eucharist; 6)Confirmation; 7)Holy Orders and 8)Matrimony. The stem of the base has the following ornamentation (the numbers correspond to those of the basin): 1) -below 1 above- warrior angel with sword and shield (St. George?); 2)bishop holding book and scroll; 3)male cleric (?) with stick (candle?); 4)pope/bishop with scroll; 5)warrior angel with shield; flagellation instrument (?); 6)bishop with book; 7)male figure holding scroll and 8)bishop with book ans scroll. "The finest of Suffolk's seven sacrament fonts" -says Simon Knott- "partly because it has suffered less damage than the others, but also because of the liveliness and detail of the reliefs." [source: S. Knott's WEB site, Badingham p. 2-3 [www.suffolkchurches.com]].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.264858, 1.377403

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 15′ 53.49″ N, 1° 22′ 38.65″ E

UTM: 31U 389270 5791737

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead lining

Rim Thickness: 12/13 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 55 cm*

Basin Depth: 25 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 50 cm*

Basin Total Height: 62 cm*

Height of Base: 70 cm*

Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: 31 x 31 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 132 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): 152 cm* [step not included]

Trapezoidal Basin: 81 x 88 cm* [min.&max. diagonals of the octagon]

Notes on Measurements: BSI

REFERENCES

Anderson, M.D., The Imagery of British churches, London: John Murray, 1955

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949

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

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Friar, Stephen, The Sutton Companion to Churches, Thrupp, Stroud (Gloucs.): Sutton Publishing, 2003

Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; r["References"]

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

Kroesen, Justin E.A., The Interior of the medieval village church = Het middeleeuwse Dorpskerkinterieur, Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters, 2004

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