Cratfield

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B01: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion

Scene Description: south-east pane

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/cratfield/cratfield.htm

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B02: sacrament - extreme unction

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/cratfield/cratfield.htm

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B03: sacrament - marriage

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/cratfield/cratfield.htm

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B04: sacrament - holy orders

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/cratfield/cratfield.htm

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B05: blank

Scene Description: originally the Eucharist or Penance?

B06: blank

Scene Description: originally the Eucharist or Penance?

B07: sacrament - confirmation

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/cratfield/cratfield.htm

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B08: sacrament - baptism

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

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

Apostle or saint - Evangelists - 4 - sitting

Scene Description: badly damaged or defaced, on the lower volume of the base

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 July 1998 by BSI

Apostle or saint - in a niche - 8

Scene Description: Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk] identifies St. Dorothy and St. Edmund [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 July 1998 by BSI

Apostle or saint - in a niche - unidentified - 8

Scene Description: at the angles of the basin; the figures are defaced and/or decapitated

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 July 1998 by BSI

Apostle or saint - unidenitfied - 4

Scene Description: damaged or defaced, alternating with the four Evangelists

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 July 1998 by BSI

angel - demi-figure - holding object - 8

Scene Description: angels holding a shield, a scroll or banderole, a book, etc.

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 July 1998 by BSI

design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Scene Description: on the underbowl chamfer

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 July 1998 by BSI

design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle

Scene Description: on the sides of the plinth steps

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 July 1998 by BSI

design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a rhomboid

Scene Description: forming a patter right under the upper rim

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 July 1998 by BSI

view of church exterior - west portal

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 July 1998 by BSI

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

Scene Description: armed Wild man or Woodwose

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 July 1998 by BSI

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

Scene Description: dragon

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 July 1998 by BSI

view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 July 1998 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: engraving in Suckling (1846-1848)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font

Scene Description: on the panels of the basin: left: Confirmation - centre: Baptism - right: Crucifixion

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 July 1998 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 00741CRA

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Church Road, Cratfield, Suffolk IP19 0BU

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

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

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

Date: pre-1490?

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font

Cognate Fonts: Earsham [cf. FontNotes]

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

Church Notes: Large three-aisle church

Font Notes: Click to view

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.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.322853, 1.393711

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 19′ 22.27″ N, 1° 23′ 37.36″ E

UTM: 31U 390526 5798163

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

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

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

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

James, M. R., Suffolk and Norfolk, London, Toronto: Dent & Sons, 1930

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

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

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