Badingham / Baddingham
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Results: 23 records
B01: sacrament - baptism
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B02: New Testament - Public life of Christ - baptism of Christ
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B03: sacrament - extreme unction
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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)
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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 font
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view of font
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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 - south porch - detail
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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."
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00734BAD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2000-07-29
Font Date: ca. 1500?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Address: Low Street, Badingham, Suffolk IP13 8JX
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
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]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 31U 389270 5791737
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.264858, 1.377403
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 15′ 53.49″ N, 1° 22′ 38.65″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
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, p. 200 fn3
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 247, 249, 259, 264, and ill. on p. 244
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949, p. 23
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982, p. 64, 68, 85 and pl. 72
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 168
- Friar, Stephen, The Sutton Companion to Churches, Thrupp, Stroud (Gloucs.): Sutton Publishing, 2003, p. 203
- 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; p. 192
- 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, p. 361
- Nichols, Ann Eljenholm, Seeable Signs: The Iconography of the Seven Sacraments 1350-1544, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1994, p. 5, 74, 80, 208, 209, 217, 225, 240, 242fn, 245, 260, 262, 277, 287, 288, 289, 298, 299, 301, 311-312, 317, 318, 319, 321, 329, 338, 348 and pl. 50, 81, 96
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]