Cratfield
Results: 22 records
B01: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion
Scene Description: south-east pane
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/cratfield/cratfield.htm
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B02: sacrament - extreme unction
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/cratfield/cratfield.htm
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B03: sacrament - marriage
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/cratfield/cratfield.htm
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B04: sacrament - holy orders
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/cratfield/cratfield.htm
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B07: sacrament - confirmation
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/cratfield/cratfield.htm
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B08: sacrament - baptism
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/cratfield/cratfield.htmdetail of a digital photograph in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/cratfield/cratfield.htm
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view of font
Scene Description: on the panels of the basin: left: Confirmation - centre: Baptism - right: Crucifixion
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 July 1998 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving in Suckling (1846-1848)
Copyright Instructions: PD
angel - demi-figure - holding object - 8
Scene Description: angels holding a shield, a scroll or banderole, a book, etc.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 July 1998 by BSI
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Scene Description: on the underbowl chamfer
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 July 1998 by BSI
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Apostle or saint - in a niche - unidentified - 8
Scene Description: at the angles of the basin; the figures are defaced and/or decapitated
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 July 1998 by BSI
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a rhomboid
Scene Description: forming a patter right under the upper rim
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 July 1998 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 July 1998 by BSI
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view of church exterior - west portal - south side - detail
Scene Description: dragon
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 July 1998 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
view of church exterior - west portal - north side - detail
Scene Description: armed Wild man or Woodwose
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 July 1998 by BSI
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view of church exterior - west portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 July 1998 by BSI
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Apostle or saint - in a niche - 8
![Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk] identifies St. Dorothy and St. Edmund [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/CRA9801907_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk] identifies St. Dorothy and St. Edmund [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 July 1998 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle
Scene Description: on the sides of the plinth steps
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 July 1998 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
Apostle or saint - unidenitfied - 4
Scene Description: damaged or defaced, alternating with the four Evangelists
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 July 1998 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
Apostle or saint - Evangelists - 4 - sitting
Scene Description: badly damaged or defaced, on the lower volume of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 July 1998 by BSI
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00741CRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 1998-07-23
Font Date: pre-1490?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font
Cognate Fonts: Earsham [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, centre of the nave.
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: Large three-aisle church
Church Address: Church Road, Cratfield, Suffolk IP19 0BU
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the B1177, just W of Huntingfield, 35 km N of Woodbridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Blything
Additional Comments: damaged font: another example of Commonwealth iconoclasm
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Cratfield in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/] [accessed 30 September 2016]; it mentions a church and church lands in it. Gorham (1824) reports: "a beautiful octagonal font; on the faces of which are represented the seven sacraments, apostles, &c." Noted in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 as a font decorated with "curious sculptures, representing scriptural subjects". Described, with an engraving, in Suckling (1846-1848): "The octagonal font, sculptured with the Sacraments of the Romish Church, maintains its original position at the west end of the nave. It is of very lofty proportions and singularly fine effect. Its several panels are peopled with carved figures; and not withstanding that mutilation pervades the whole design, the original grace and excellence cannot be disguised." Described in Parker (1855). In Cautley (1949). Octagonal Seven-sacrament baptismal font fully described and studied in Nichols (1994). The basin has a Sacrament carved on each of six faces [Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Orders, Eucharist, Marriage and Extreme Unction -- the Penance panel is blank]; the last face, facing south-east, contains a Crucifixion scene. At the angles, separating the scenes, figures of saints. Knott's entry in Suffolk Churches [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/cratfield/cratfield.htm] identifies St. Dorothy and St. Edmund. The underbowl has the usual angels holding an array of symbols: scroll or banderole, book, etc. The octagonal base has the seated Evangelists on alternate sides with four of the Apostles on the other sides. Two-step plinth, the sides decorated. On-site notes: octagonal basin with only six scenes remaining; lead-lined basin has central hole for drainage; seated figures adorn the lower edge of the base while standing figures are carved around the pedestal; no lid present; evidence of blue paint remains on the font.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 390526 5798163
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.322853, 1.393711
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 19′ 22.27″ N, 1° 23′ 37.36″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin & base
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Rim Thickness: 12 - 15 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 57 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 81 - 88 cm*
Basin Depth: 28 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 45 cm*
Basin Total Height: 53 cm*
Height of Base: 81 cm*
Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: 35 x 35 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 134 cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): 182 cm* (plinth 2-steps 48 cm)
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site
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. 259
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949, p. 23, 24
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982, p. 67, 68 and pl. 69
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 168
- Gorham, George Cornelius, A supplement to the history and antiquities of Eynesbury and St. Neot's, in Huntingdonshire, London: Printed by Thomas Davison, For Harding, Mavor, and Lepard (Lackington's), 1824, p. cxxxi
- James, M. R., Suffolk and Norfolk, London, Toronto: Dent & Sons, 1930, p. 92
- Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=50903] [accessed 26 January 2007]
- Nichols, Ann Eljenholm, Seeable Signs: The Iconography of the Seven Sacraments 1350-1544, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1994, p. 74,77,81-82,85,89,211,225,263,315,333,334, ill. pl. 95
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]
- 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, vol. 2: 215 and pl. opp.