Laxfield / Laxefelda / Laxford
Results: 22 records
B02: sacrament - marriage
Scene Description: in the left panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 July 1998 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
B03: sacrament - baptism
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 July 1998 by BSI
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B04: sacrament - confirmation
Scene Description: in the right panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 July 1998 by BSI
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B06: sacrament - eucharist
Scene Description: in the left panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 July 1998 by BSI
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B07: sacrament - penance
Scene Description: in the centre panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 July 1998 by BSI
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B08: sacrament - extreme unction
Scene Description: in the right panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 July 1998 by BSI
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view of font - west side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 July 1998 by BSI
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Bond (1908)
Copyright Instructions: PD
design element - architectural - arcade - Ogee arches - cusped and crocketed - 8
Scene Description: the inner vaults showing
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 July 1998 by BSI
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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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 July 1998 by BSI
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design element - motifs - floral
Scene Description: on the lower border of the basin
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 July 1998 by BSI
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design element - patterns - reticular - with rosettes
Scene Description: vault-like pattern on the underbowl
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 July 1998 by BSI
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design element - architectural - buttress - crocketed pinnacle - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 July 1998 by BSI
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view of church exterior - tower and south porch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 July 1998 by BSI
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrian Cable, 2009
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 church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrian Cable, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 November 2009 by Adrian Cable [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1598012] [accessed 15 December 2016]
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - rosette
Scene Description: on the lower part of the centre shaft
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 July 1998 by BSI
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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled
Scene Description: four of them visible here
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 July 1998 by BSI
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil
Scene Description: an alternate pattern without inscribed rosettes on the sides of the lower step of the plinth
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 July 1998 by BSI
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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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 July 1998 by BSI
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00753SUF
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 1998-07-23
Font Date: ca. 1500?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font
Cognate Fonts: Southwold and Badingham [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, in the centre of the nave, opposite the S door
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Church Walk, Laxfield, Suffolk IP13 8DZ, United Kingdom
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B1117-C525 crossroads, SW of Halesworth, 10 km NE of Framlingham
Historical Region: Hundred of Bishop
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 31U 388590 5795952
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.302599, 1.366045
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 18′ 9.35″ N, 1° 21′ 57.76″ 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-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, p. 200 fn3
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 51, 91, 185, 247, 252, 259 and ill. on p. 89
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949, p. 23
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982, p. 67, 68 and pl. 70
- Cox, John Charles J., English Church Fittings Furniture and Accessories, London: B.T. Batsford, 1922, Photo:pl.75,p.93 and p.97
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 168
- Friar, Stephen, The Sutton Companion to Churches, Thrupp, Stroud (Gloucs.): Sutton Publishing, 2003, p. 204
- 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, 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.
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]