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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 font
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view of font in context
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Bond (1908)
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view of basin
Scene Description: left: Marriage - centre: Confirmation - right: Baptism
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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: Penance - centre: Marriage - right: Confirmation
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view of font in context
Scene Description: in the context of the south doorway
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trustees of the British Museum, 2013
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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view of basin - detail - Eucharist
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view of basin - detail - baptism
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view of basin - detail - Penance
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Bond (1908)
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: basin panel: Penance
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © James, 1930
Image Source: digital image of an Illustration in James (1930: 108)
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view of basin - detail - Eucharist
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tasker, 1993
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Tasker (1993: 6.61)
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view of basin - detail - confirmation
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Tasker (1993: 6.57)
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view of basin - detail - baptism
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Tasker (1993: 6.55)
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view of basin - detail - Marriage
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00772WES
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: St. Andrew's (Cathedral vicarage)
Font Location in Church: In the nave, through the arcade
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: Church Hill, Halesworth IP19 8NU, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1502 714786
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B1124 Halesworth to Beccles road, just S of Brampton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Additional Comments: damaged font / vandalised font / Dowsing at work?: some decapitation of figures -- painted font: the font retains much of the original (?) paint
Font Notes:
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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."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this font.
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, p. 200 fn3
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 253, 264, 269 and ill. on p. 246, 261
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949, p. 23, 24
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982, p. 68, 85
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 169
- Friar, Stephen, The Sutton Companion to Churches, Thrupp, Stroud (Gloucs.): Sutton Publishing, 2003, p. 203
- James, M. R., Suffolk and Norfolk, London, Toronto: Dent & Sons, 1930, p. 107-108
- 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, p. 225, 230, 244, 261, 262, 276, 288, 317, 350, 351-352 and Pl. 24, 54
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]
- Tasker, Edward G., Encyclopedia of Medieval Church Art, London: B.T. Batsford, 1993, p. 196, 197, 199 and plates