Hoxne

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Results: 15 records

B01: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew - symbol - angel - with book

Scene Description: southwest side of the basin?

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Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2007 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/hoxne.html] [accessed 22 October 2009]

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B02: angel - holding shield - coat of arms - John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk and Elizabeth Plantagenet?

Scene Description: on the south side? [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 February 2011by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B03: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion

Scene Description: tentative identification; badly damaged; seen here on the left panel, southeast side of the basin

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 February 2011by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B04: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - coat of arms - Bishop Lyhart of Norwich?

Scene Description: badly damaged; in the centre panel; east side of the basin? appears to be a rampant quadruped facing left

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B05: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Luke - symbol - winged bull

Scene Description: damaged; northeast of the basin? tentative identification

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B06: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - St. Peter?

Scene Description: on the north side; damaged; two crossed keys?

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B07: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - symbol - eagle

Scene Description: northwest side of the basin? damaged

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B08: angel - holding shield - emblem - St. Paul?

Scene Description: damaged; west side of the basin? two crossed swords?

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BU01: angel - demi-figure - holding object - 8

Scene Description: some damaged; not the usual cherub winged heads, but demi-figures; some hold scrolls

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BU02: design element - motifs - varied

Scene Description: this area appears to be a later re-carving: several square flowers, one lion head with its tongue out, etc.

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UB01: Old Testament - prophets - 4

Scene Description: tentative identification [cf. FontNotes]; most of them decapitated; the larger figures appear to wear monk robes with hoods

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UB02: Apostle or saint - Church Father - 4

Scene Description: tentative identification [cf. FontNotes]; most of them decapitated; the larger figures appear to wear monk robes with hoods

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font and cover at the west end of the nave, on the north side, by the arcade separating it from the north aisle

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01172HOX
Church/Chapel: Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located on the B1118, 8 km ESE of Diss, 40 km N of Ipswich
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1460-1472?
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Evangelists' font / heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, and to Janice Tostevin, for their photographs of this church and font
Dowsing (1885) reports on his visit to this church in 1643/1644 breaking "Cherubims Wings on the Font. Many more were broken down afore". Described in Parker (1855): "Handsome octagonal font, with panelled bowl; the panels containing the symbols of St. Peter, St. Paul, and the Evangelists." A detailed study of the font by Manning appeared in The East Anglian [1886?], with a description of the motifs, identification of the coats of arms, etc. Manning suggests an identification of the two sets of four figures around the pedestal base as four doctors of the Church and the four greater prophets of the Old Testament; of the four shields on the basin held by angels, Manning identifies the emblems for St. Peter and St. Paul on the north and west sides, respectively; the one on the east face is identified as "the arms of Bishop Lyhart, of Norwich (1446 to 1472)"; the arms on the south shield he identifies as those of John De La Pole, second Duke of Suffolk; Manning adds: "Consequently the font must have been erected after 1460 , and before 1472 when Bishop Lyhart died, and when the duke was made a knight of the garter, of which there is no sign on the shield". Described in Bond (1908) as a 15th-century baptismal font "with the four Evangelists and four angels on the bowl, and eight figures round the pedestal; the armorial bearings prove it to have been executed between 1460 and 1472". Listed in Cox & Harvey as a 15th-century font (1907). Listed in Cautley (1982) in a group of 15th-century heraldic fonts in Suffolk. The wooden cover has an inscription that records the donation of the font in memory of the donor's husband, who died October 29th, 1879; there must have been an earlier cover and the upper rim bears the scars of its staples.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 377400 5801492

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1879
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: yes; counterweight
Notes: tall wooden cover with three crown-like stages; inscribed on the lower one, with date 1879

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
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
Dowsing, William, of Stratford, The Journal of William Dowsing, of Stratford, Parliamentary visitor, appointed under a warrant from the Earl of Manchester, for demolishing the superstitious pictures and ornaments of churches &c., within the County of Suffolk, in the years 1643-1644, Ipswich: Pawsey and Hayes, 1885
Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-10-22 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
Manning, C.R., "The font in Hoxne church, Suffolk", N.S. [1886?], The East Anglian, or, Notes and Queries […], [1886?], pp. 329-330; r["References"]
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855