Barrow / Baro / Barrow nr. Bury St. Edmunds

Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Standing permission
Results: 8 records
coat of arms - 8
design element - motifs - foliage
design element - motifs - moulding
design element - patterns - tracery - window tracery
view of church exterior - south view
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of church interior - nave - looking west
INFORMATION
FontID: 01153BAR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Church Road, Barrow, Suffolk, IP29 5BA
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located just S of the A14, 8-9 km WSW of Bury St Edmunds
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Thingoe [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: another heraldic font at nearby Horringer
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Suffolk Churches, for his photograph of this font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There is an entry for this Barrow in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL7664/barrow/] [accessed 6 july 2015]; it mentions a church and church lands in it. Parker (1855) notes: "The font is P[erpendicular]; a panelled octagon". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) and Cautley (1982) as a heraldic baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. The newly painted shields are on the sides of the basin, which is raised on an octagonal pedestal decorated with trefoil and quatrefoil tracery; the lower base is octagonal and moulded.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.251572,
0.578372
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 15′ 5.66″ N,
0° 34′ 42.14″ E
UTM: 31U 334700 5791782
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ting handle; Victorian?
REFERENCES
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: 2009-06-01 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855