Great Glemham
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Results: 21 records
B01: sacrament - penance
Scene Description: on the southeast side of the basin
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 200 by BSI
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B02: sacrament - confirmation
Scene Description: on the east side of the basin
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B03: sacrament - baptism
Scene Description: on the northeast side of the basin
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B04: sacrament - marriage
Scene Description: on the north side of the basin
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B05: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion
Scene Description: on the west side of the basin
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B05: sacrament - holy orders
Scene Description: on the northwest side of the basin
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B07: sacrament - extreme unction
Scene Description: on the southwest side of the basin
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B08: sacrament - eucharist
Scene Description: on the south side of the basin
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view of font
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
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angel - holding shield - 8
Scene Description: Eight angels holding shields (blank) appear around the lower edge of the underbowl
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view of church exterior - northwest end
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 200 by BSI
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view of church exterior - north portal
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 200 by BSI
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view of church interior - window
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view of font in context - west side
Scene Description: at the west end of the nave, looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 July 2011 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2504891] [accessed 3 November 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
![with the font at the far [west] end](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1161103009_compressed.png)
Scene Description: with the font at the far [west] end
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: with an impressive display of colourful kneelers in view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrian Cable, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 July 2009 by Adrian Cable [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1429355] [accessed 3 November 2016]
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design element - motifs - floral - vase with lilies
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symbol - shield - blank - in a cinquefoil
Scene Description: several of them on the sides of the plinth
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - cusped
Scene Description: several of them on the sides of the plinth
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2
Scene Description: at the top and bottom of the plinth
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00749GRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2000-07-29
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font / heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: Denston, Woodbridge.
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W side, centre nave
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: New Road, Great Glemham, Suffolk IP17 2DB, United Kingdom
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: damaged font (some defacing of figures)
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 31U 392228 5784820
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.203283, 1.422939
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 12′ 11.82″ N, 1° 25′ 22.58″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Caen stone)
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
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, 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. 68, 85
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 168, 220
- 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=50982] [accessed 6 February 2007]
- Nichols, Ann Eljenholm, Seeable Signs: The Iconography of the Seven Sacraments 1350-1544, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1994, p. 74, 79, 165, 170, 195, 205, 218, 224, 230, 235, 245, 251n, 253, 272, 276, 277, 282, 285, 287, 288, 304, 309, 315, 338, 352 and pl. 39, 70, 79, 86
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]
- Tasker, Edward G., Encyclopedia of Medieval Church Art, London: B.T. Batsford, 1993, p. 199