Westhall

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B01: sacrament - baptism

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B02: sacrament - confirmation

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B03: sacrament - marriage

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B04: sacrament - penance - confession

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B05: sacrament - extreme unction

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B06: sacrament - eucharist

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B07: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in a font

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B08: sacrament - holy orders

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B09: design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - 8

Scene Description: with a Sacrament scene under each plus the Baptism of Christ

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B10: design element - architectural - buttress - canopied - 8

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BBU01: design element - patterns - crenellated

Scene Description: below the upper moulding

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BS01: design element - motifs - floral or foliage

Scene Description: in the spandrels of the arches that contain the sacramental scenes

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BU01: angel - holding musical instrument - 8

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LB01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 8

Scene Description: around the pedestal base

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R01: design element - motifs - moulding

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view of basin

Scene Description: left: Penance - centre: Marriage - right: Confirmation

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view of basin

Scene Description: left: Eucharist - centre: Extreme Unction - right: Penance

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view of basin

Scene Description: left: Marriage - centre: Confirmation - right: Baptism

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: basin panel: Penance

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view of basin - detail - Eucharist

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view of basin - detail - Eucharist

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view of basin - detail - Marriage

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view of basin - detail - Penance

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view of basin - detail - baptism

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view of basin - detail - baptism

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view of basin - detail - confirmation

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view of font

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view of font in context

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view of font in context

Scene Description: in the context of the south doorway

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Image Source: digital image of an 1821 etching printed by Henry Davy, in the British Museum collections [ref.: 1870,0514.1512 -- PPA120782]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00772WES
Church/Chapel: St. Andrew's (Cathedral vicarage)
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Church Hill, Halesworth IP19 8NU, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1502 714786
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off the B1124 Halesworth to Beccles road, just S of Brampton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Font Location in Church: In the nave, through the arcade
Date: ca. 1500?
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this font.
Illustrated in the context of the south door of the church a 1821 etching printed by Henry Davy, in the British Museum collections [ref.: 1870,0514.1512 -- PPA120782]. Described in Parker (1855): "Font, an octagon, with groups of figures in square panels; the whole of the colour on this is very perfect." Described and illustrated in Bond (1908). Noted in Cautley (1949). Studied in detail in Nichols (1994), who dates it to ca. 1500. Octagonal mounted Seven-Sacrament baptismal font raised on a two-step plinth. The basin has a moulding at the upper rim and a band of crenellated pattern below; the sides are ornamented with an arcade of round arches containing the Sacrament scenes. The chamfer is ornamented with musical angels. The octagonal pedestal base has a blind arcade of trefoil arches. The font is covered in brilliant gilding and bright paint, which Nichols (ibid.) cites Cautley and Pevsner for identifying it as original paint; Nichols (ibid.) gives the scenes around the basin as:1)Baptism; 2)Confirmation; 3)Marriage; 4)Penance; 5)Extreme Unction; 6)Eucharist; 7)Baptism of Christ; 8)Holy Orders. The corners of the bottom towards the underbowl have angels holding musical instruments. Both Nichols (1994) and Knott (2006?) mention the gesso figures. Knott calls this font "the most moving and romantic of the series of 14 [i.e., Seven-Sacrament fonts] in Suffolk."

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 401028 5804077

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

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, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Friar, Stephen, The Sutton Companion to Churches, Thrupp, Stroud (Gloucs.): Sutton Publishing, 2003
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.
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
Tasker, Edward G., Encyclopedia of Medieval Church Art, London: B.T. Batsford, 1993