Stoke-by-Nayland

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B01: angel - seated - holding scroll

Scene Description: left=Angel with scroll - centre=Seated woman with scroll - right=Luke's ox

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/stoken.htm

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B02: human figure - female - seated - wearing headdress - holding scroll

Scene Description: left=Angel with scroll - centre=Seated woman with scroll - right=Luke's ox

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/stoken.htm

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B03: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Luke - symbol - winged bull

Scene Description: left=Angel with scroll - centre=Seated woman with scroll - right=Luke's ox

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/stoken.htm

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B04: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew - symbol - angel

Scene Description: left=Luke's ox - centre=Matthew's angel - right=John's eagle

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/stoken.htm

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B05: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - symbol - eagle

Scene Description: left=Luke's ox - centre=Matthew's angel - right=John's eagle

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/stoken.htm

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B06: human figure - female - seated - wearing headdress - holding scroll

Scene Description: left=John's eagle - centre Seated woman beside a tree, facing front - right=Mark's lion

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/stoken.htm

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B07: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion

Scene Description: left=John's eagle - centre Seated woman beside a tree, facing front - right=Mark's lion

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/stoken.htm

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B08: human figure - male - seated - wearing clerical dress? - pointing to open book

Scene Description: left=Mark's lion - centre=Seated cleric? - right=Seated angel with scroll

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/stoken.htm

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BU01: angel - showing wings - 8

Scene Description: One at each of the eight angles of the underbowl

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/stoken.htm

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BU02: design element - architectural - buttress - 8

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/stoken.htm

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LB01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - 8 arches - trefoiled arches

Scene Description: One on each side of the stem of the base

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Bond (1908)

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P01: coat of arms - rose en soleil (Edward IV, king of Englsnd)

Scene Description: On the front step of the second plinth [cf. FontNtes for details]

Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged]

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P02: coat of arms - unidentified

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Bond (1908)

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view of church interior - looking west

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/stoken.htm

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view of font

Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged]

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view of font

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/stoken.htm

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view of font in context

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/stoken.htm

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01194STO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: School St, Stoke-by-Nayland, Colchester CO6 4QY, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: St Mary is located on the B1087, about a mile north of Nayland on the A134 Sudbury to Colchester road; open every day (S. Knott's WEB site, Stoke-by-Nayland)

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W of the entrance, by the tower arch.

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this font]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described in Paley (1844): a fine octagonal mounted font of the 15th century in the Perpendicular style. The basin has the four symbols of the Evangelists alternately with figures of angels in the other four. The chamfered underbowl has an angel with extended wings at each angle. The elegant stem of the base has a trefoil arch on each of its eight sides. "It is elevated on three unusually high steps; the two lower ones are octagonal, and the upper one is in the form of a cross." Paley (ibid.) dates it firmly in the 15th century based on style but "further confirmed by the shield on the front step being charged with the Rose en Soleil, the Yorkist badge, assumed by Edward the Fourth after the battle of Mortimer's Cross, (A.D. 1461) and afterwards continued by the Tudors." (ibid.) Parker (1855) describes it as "very fine; the bowl and pedestal richly panelled". Bloxam (1859) appears to list it among the Norman fonts. Bond (1908) appears to have used much of Paley's information as a source; he describes this font as one of "the most magnificent examples which we possess". James (1930) writes: "The font has the Evangelistic emblems and intermediate figures which demand interpretation. The base and steps are stately." Listed in Cautley (1982) as a heraldic font of the 15th century. Knott (2008) notes: "The font is curious, to say the least. Four of the panels show conventional evangelistic symbols, but three of the other four are unfamiliar. One is an angel, but the others are a woman in a cowl carrying a scroll beside a tree, a man with a sack pointing to a book open on a shelf, and a man with a scroll at a lectern."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.989447, 0.891325

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 59′ 22.01″ N, 0° 53′ 28.77″ E

UTM: 31U 355212 5761964

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Rim Thickness: 12.5 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 55 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 80 cm

Basin Depth: 30 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 99 cm

Font Height (with Plinth): 170 cm (with three steps)

Notes on Measurements: Paley (1844) -- *[NB: uncertain wether this measurement refers to the depth of the interior or the height of the basin itself, but probably the former]

REFERENCES

Bloxam, Matthew Holbeche, The Principles of Gothic ecclesiastical architecture, with an explanation of technical terms […], London: W. Kent, 1859

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

Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962

James, M. R., Suffolk and Norfolk, London, Toronto: Dent & Sons, 1930

Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.

Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844

Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855