Laxfield / Laxefelda / Laxford

Results: 22 records

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B01: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ

B02: sacrament - marriage

Scene Description: in the left panel

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 July 1998 by BSI

B03: sacrament - baptism

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 July 1998 by BSI

B04: sacrament - confirmation

Scene Description: in the right panel

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 July 1998 by BSI

B05: sacrament - holy orders

B06: sacrament - eucharist

Scene Description: in the left panel

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 July 1998 by BSI

B07: sacrament - penance

Scene Description: in the centre panel

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 July 1998 by BSI

B08: sacrament - extreme unction

Scene Description: in the right panel

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 July 1998 by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade - Ogee arches - cusped and crocketed - 8

Scene Description: the inner vaults showing

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 July 1998 by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade - crocketed and pinnacled - 8

Scene Description: the arch-heads themselves are only slightly rounded but there is a profsion of crocketed pinnacles above

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 July 1998 by BSI

design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled

Scene Description: four of them visible here

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 July 1998 by BSI

design element - architectural - buttress - crocketed pinnacle - 8

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 July 1998 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral

Scene Description: on the lower border of the basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 July 1998 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral - rosette - in a quatrefoil

Scene Description: round and cusped quatrefoils with inscribed rosettes on the panels of the steps of the plinth

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 July 1998 by BSI

design element - motifs - quatrefoil

Scene Description: an alternate pattern without inscribed rosettes on the sides of the lower step of the plinth

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 July 1998 by BSI

design element - motifs - quatrefoil - rosette

Scene Description: on the lower part of the centre shaft

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 July 1998 by BSI

design element - patterns - reticular - with rosettes

Scene Description: vault-like pattern on the underbowl

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 July 1998 by BSI

view of church exterior - tower and south porch

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 July 1998 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 November 2009 by Adrian Cable [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1598012] [accessed 15 December 2016]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 November 2009 by Adrian Cable [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1598010] [accessed 15 December 2016]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

view of font - west side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 July 1998 by BSI

view of font in context

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Bond (1908)

Copyright Instructions: PD

INFORMATION

FontID: 00753SUF

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Church Walk, Laxfield, Suffolk IP13 8DZ, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off the B1117-C525 crossroads, SW of Halesworth, 10 km NE of Framlingham

Historical Region: Hundred of Bishop

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, in the centre of the nave, opposite the S door

Date: ca. 1500?

Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font

Cognate Fonts: Southwold and Badingham [cf. FontNotes]

Font Notes: Click to view

There is an entry for Laxfield [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM2972/laxfield/] [accessed 12 April 2023]; it reports "1 church. 0.35 church lands" in it. Listed in Gough (1792) as one of a group of fonts "in the Eastern part of Suffolk" ornamented with the Seven Sacraments [NB: Gough has 'Laxford']. Octagonal font with scenes containing Seven Sacraments under rich canopies. Described in Parker (1855) as "a very fine" font, at par with those at Great Glenham and Badingham. In Cautley (1949). Studied in Nichols (1994); order of scenes on the basin sides: 1)Baptism; 2) Confirmation; 3)Holy Orders; 4)Eucharist; 5)Penance; 6)Extreme Unction; 7)Baptism of Christ; 8)Matrimony. Traces of colour remaining. Much damage, mainly decapitation of figures. Nichols' dating to ca. 1500. Stands on 2-3 richly panelled steps/plinths. Nichols (ibid.) gives Southwold and Badingham as cognates.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.302599, 1.366045

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 18′ 9.35″ N, 1° 21′ 57.76″ E

UTM: 31U 388590 5795952

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

Rim Thickness: 15-16 to 18-19 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 60 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 95-98 cm*

Basin Depth: 32 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 51-54 cm* (to longest part)

Basin Total Height: 60 cm*

Height of Base: 20 cm*

Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: 40 x 35 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 80 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): (plinth- 3-steps is 80 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 J., English Church Fittings Furniture and Accessories, London: B.T. Batsford, 1922

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Friar, Stephen, The Sutton Companion to Churches, Thrupp, Stroud (Gloucs.): Sutton Publishing, 2003

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, 198

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.

Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855