Wenhaston / Wenadestuna
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Results: 7 records
BU01: view of basin - underbowl
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view of font and cover
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design element - architectural - arcade
![originally filled with scenes of the Seven Sacraments [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1061025006_compressed.png)
Scene Description: originally filled with scenes of the Seven Sacraments [cf. FontNotes]
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design element - architectural - buttress - 8
Scene Description: at the angles
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view of font and cover in context
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - cinquefoiled arches - 8
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Scene Description: on the lower base
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00771WEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1500?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, opposite the S entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Church Ln, Halesworth IP19 9EG, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1986 875941
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
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]
Additional Comments: damaged font: all figural sculpture "filed smooth" at some point after the early 19th century -- altered font (idem) -- painted font: probably painted after the alterations -- MUST USE as an example of not Puritan iconoclasm -- disappeared font (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 31U 401724 5797999
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.3235, 1.558
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 19′ 24.6″ N, 1° 33′ 28.8″ E
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, p. 23
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982, p. 63, 68
- Nichols, Ann Eljenholm, Seeable Signs: The Iconography of the Seven Sacraments 1350-1544, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1994, p. 3, 6n, 8, 78, 82, 87, 320, 350
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]