Great Glemham

Results: 21 records

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B01: sacrament - penance

Scene Description: on the southeast side of the basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 200 by BSI

B02: sacrament - confirmation

Scene Description: on the east side of the basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 200 by BSI

B03: sacrament - baptism

Scene Description: on the northeast side of the basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 200 by BSI

B04: sacrament - marriage

Scene Description: on the north side of the basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 200 by BSI

B05: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion

Scene Description: on the west side of the basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 200 by BSI

B05: sacrament - holy orders

Scene Description: on the northwest side of the basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 200 by BSI

B07: sacrament - extreme unction

Scene Description: on the southwest side of the basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 200 by BSI

B08: sacrament - eucharist

Scene Description: on the south side of the basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 200 by BSI

angel - holding shield - 8

Scene Description: Eight angels holding shields (blank) appear around the lower edge of the underbowl

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 200 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral - vase with lilies

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 200 by BSI

design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 200 by BSI

design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2

Scene Description: at the top and bottom of the plinth

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 200 by BSI

design element - motifs - quatrefoil - cusped

Scene Description: several of them on the sides of the plinth

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 200 by BSI

symbol - shield - blank - in a cinquefoil

Scene Description: several of them on the sides of the plinth

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 200 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 200 by BSI

view of church exterior - northwest end

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 200 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: with an impressive display of colourful kneelers in view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 July 2009 by Adrian Cable [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1429355] [accessed 3 November 2016]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: with the font at the far [west] end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 July 2011 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2504902] [accessed 3 November 2016]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior - window

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 200 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 200 by BSI

view of font in context - west side

Scene Description: at the west end of the nave, looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 July 2011 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2504891] [accessed 3 November 2016]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 00749GRE

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: New Road, Great Glemham, Suffolk IP17 2DB, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located N of the A12 and Farnham, 7 km km WSW of Saxmundham, 30-35 km ENE of Ipswich

Historical Region: Hundred of Plmesgate

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W side, centre nave

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

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font / heraldic font

Cognate Fonts: Denston, Woodbridge.

Font Notes: Click to view

There are thirteen entries for [Great] Glemham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TM3361/great-glemham/] [accessed 3 November 2016]; one of them mentions 0.5 churches and 0.08 church lands in it; another mentions a church and 0.08 church lands in it; and a third mentions 0.5 church and 0.08 church lands in it. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 notes: "the ancient font, of Caen stone, is richly sculptured." Described in Parker (1855), who has the dedication of the church transposed with that of Little Glemham [St. Andrew instead of All Saints]. Noted in Cautley (1949) as a font of the Seven-sacrament group. Described and studied in Nichols (1992) who cites Pevsner: "carving was originally apparently specially animated"; she dates the font to the last quarter of the 15th century. Nichols mentions traces of colour and gives the order of the program thus: 1)Baptism; 2)Confirmation; 3)Penance; 4)Eucharist; 5)Extreme Unction; 6)Crucifixion; 7)Holy Orders; 8)Matrimony. On-site notes: the faces/heads of some of the figures have been mutilated; otherwise the font is in a very good state of conservation. There are eight angels with blank shields on the corners of the underbowl. The slender stem of the base has some tall beautiful plant motifs. The plinth sides are ornamented with shields alternating with double-quatrefoil motif. Noted and fully illustrated in Knott (2009).

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.203283, 1.422939

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 12′ 11.82″ N, 1° 25′ 22.58″ E

UTM: 31U 392228 5784820

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Caen stone)

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead lining

Rim Thickness: 7-8 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 56 cm*

Basin Depth: 35 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 32 cm*

Basin Total Height: 44 cm*

Height of Base: 64 cm*

Height of Central Column: 40 cm*

Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: 32 (height) x 28/31 (width) cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 112 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): 155 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 72 x 78 cm* (min.&max. diagonals of the octagon)

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

Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-10-27 00:00:00. 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

Tasker, Edward G., Encyclopedia of Medieval Church Art, London: B.T. Batsford, 1993