Weston nr. Beccles

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Results: 19 records

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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 basin - detail

Scene Description: showing the Baptism of Christ in the centre panel

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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 font in context

Scene Description: the north side of the basin

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00774WES

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Church Ln, Weston, Suffolk, NR34 7TP, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off the A145, 3 km S of Beccles

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich

Historical Region: Hundred of Wangford

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

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 the photographs of this font]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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."

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

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

Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2006-04-23 00:00:00. 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

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