Hessett
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B01: design element - motifs - varied
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 February 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/hessett.htm] [accessed 10 November 2009]
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BU01: design element - motifs - varied
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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LB02: design element - motifs - varied
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 February 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/hessett.htm] [accessed 10 November 2009]
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P01: inscription
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1091115011_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 February 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/hessett.htm] [accessed 10 November 2009]
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UB01: design element - motifs - tracery
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 February 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/hessett.htm] [accessed 10 November 2009]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the font and cover in the foreground
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 February 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/hessett.htm] [accessed 10 November 2009]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01222HES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Ethelbert
Church Patron Saints: St. Ethelbert [aka Æthelberht]
Church Location: 7 Lime Tree Cl, Hessett, Bury Saint Edmunds IP30 9AY, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1359 270250
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located S of the A14, 8 kn ESE of Bury St Edmunds
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Date: ca. 1510?
Century and Period: 16th century(early), Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this font
Font Notes:
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Parker (1855) notes: "There is a beautiful P[erpendicular] font, with an inscription on the steps". [NB: Parker (ibid.) mentions another inscription on the flint-work of the parapets of the church: "John Hoo and Katheryn hys wyffe"]. Described in Cox & Harvey (1907): "The handsome font at Hessett, Suffolk, has a 'kneeling stone' to the west of the plinth. Upon the three sides is the following inscription: 'Orate pro animabs rti hoo et augnetis uxis ejus q istum fontem fieri fecerunt'. The will of Robert Hoo was proved in 1510; in it mentions 'myn wyf Augnes'". In Long (1923), with "an inscription round the top". Mentioned in James (1930). Listed in Cautley (1982) as 15th-century font bearing an inscription. Noted and illustrated in Knott (2008). The octagonal font is covered in tracery and other decorative motifs; the inscription is on the side of the kneeling stone of the octagonal plinth. The wooden cover is octagonal, flat and plain.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.22034, 0.83426
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 13′ 13.22″ N, 0° 50′ 3.34″ E
UTM: 31U 352061 5787756
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Notes: The donor of the font, Robert Hoo and his wife Augnes
Inscription Location: On a kneeling stone to the west of the plinth
Inscription Text: "Orate pro animab[u]s r[obe]ti hoo et augnetis ux[or]is ejus q[ui] ist[u]m fontem fieri fecerunt"
Inscription Source: Cox & Harvey (1907: 181-182) et al [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
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
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]. Accessed: 2009-06-02 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; p. 65
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855