Weston nr. Beccles
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Results: 19 records
B01: sacrament - baptism
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B02: sacrament - eucharist
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B03: sacrament - holy orders
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B04: sacrament - penance
Scene Description: in the centre panel
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B05: sacrament - extreme unction
Scene Description: in the side panel
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B06: sacrament - marriage
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B07: New Testament - Public life of Christ - baptism of Christ
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B08: sacrament - confirmation
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B09: design element - architectural - arcade
Scene Description: the arches are isimilar but not identical
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B10: design element - architectural - buttress - with arches or windows - 8
Scene Description: framing the scenes of the basin side
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BS01: design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: in the spandrels of the arches
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BU01: angel - 8
Scene Description: on the corners of the underbowl chamfer
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CR01: design element - motifs - moulding
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LB01: design element - architectural - window - cinquefoiled - 8
Scene Description: one on each panel of the stem of the base
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LB02: design element - architectural - buttress - 8
Scene Description: at the angles of the stem
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R01: design element - patterns - crenellated
Scene Description: all around
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the north side of the basin
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: showing the Sacrament of Baptism in the centre panel
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: showing the Baptism of Christ in the centre panel
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00774WES
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
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Church Ln, Weston, Suffolk, NR34 7TP, United Kingdom
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A145, 3 km S of Beccles
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Wangford
Additional Comments: damaged font / mutilated scenes / restored font
Font Notes:
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Noted in Suckling (1846-1848) as a "splendid font [...] composed of the finest stone and is six feet one inch from the ground. Its form is octangular; but as seven of its sides were sculptured with representations of the Romish sacraments, the carved work has been sadly mutilated." Noted in Parker (1855) and Cautley (1949). Studied in detail in Nichols (1994) who reports that the font now [i.e., ca. 1992] "has a scrubbed look rather different from what I saw in 1983", obviously the result of restoration efforts after the fire set by vandals in 1985 which, Nichols adds, left expensive smoke damage to the church. Description of the scenes is given in Nichols (ibid.) as follows: 1)Baptism; 2)Eucharist; 3)Holy Orders; 4)Penance; 5)Extreme Unction; 6)Mariage; 7)Baptism of Christ; 8)Penance[ error? - probably Confirmation in either 2 or 8] . She dates the font to ca. 1500. Illustrated in Knott (2008), who notes the re-cut stem and plinth. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TM4290787106] notes: "Parish church. Medieval; chancel restored 1860 […] The nave probably has a C12 core: there is one blocked C12 window in the north wall and the inner arch of the south doorway is semi-circular […] The nave probably has a C12 core: there is one blocked C12 window in the north wall and the inner arch of the south doorway is semi-circular […] Good C15 font, the panels of the bowl with mutilated carvings of the Seven Sacraments and the Baptism of Christ; angels to the underside of the bowl and a buttressed stem with cusped panels between. The font stands on a 2-stepped octagonal plinth, with a raised upper step in the form of a Maltese Cross and with panelled risers."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for the photographs of this font]
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 403037 5809266
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Font Height (with Plinth): 185.4 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [Suckling (1846-1848) gives the height as "six feet one inch", which must have obviously included the plinth]
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. 259
- 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. 68
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 169, 220
- 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. 87, 208, 217, 261, 317, 351-352
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]
- Suckling, Alfred, The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk, with genealogical and architectural notices of its several towns and villages, London: John Weale [...], 1846-1848, vol. 1: 99