Wenhaston / Wenadestuna

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BU01: view of basin - underbowl

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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design element - architectural - arcade

Scene Description: originally filled with scenes of the Seven Sacraments [cf. FontNotes]

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - cinquefoiled arches - 8

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design element - architectural - buttress - 8

Scene Description: at the angles

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Scene Description: on the lower base

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00771WEN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Church Ln, Halesworth IP19 9EG, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1986 875941

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off the A12, 10-12 km W of Southwold, about 50 km ENE of Ipswich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich

Historical Region: Hundred of Blyting [in Domesday]

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

Date: ca. 1500?

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

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Wenhaston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM4275/wenhaston/] [accessed 13 April 2023]; it reports "1 church. 0.08 church lands" in it. Parker (1855) reports that the "font is P[erpendicular], and very poor." Noted in Cautley (1949) and (1982), who notes that the font had "the seven sacraments hacked from the panels early in the 19th century". Nichols (1994) cites David Elisha Davy's A Journal of Excursions through the County of Suffolk (1982) as the source for the fact "that the font still retained seven-sacrament sculpture in the early 19th c.", but she reports (ibid.) that the "bowl panels and shaft [are] filed smooth." Nichols (ibid.) dates the font "c. 1500?". The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TM4249375475] notes: "Parish Church. Medieval, restored 1892 [...] C15 octagonal font, the panels defaced but with traces of original colour".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.3235, 1.558

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 19′ 24.6″ N, 1° 33′ 28.8″ E

UTM: 31U 401724 5797999

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949

Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982

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