Newmarket

Results: 2 records

B01: symbol - shield - in a foil

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B02: design element - motifs - floral - in a foil

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 01419NEW
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church Ln, Newmarket CB8 0HP, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1638 660729
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located about 25 km ENE of Cambridge
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Parker (1855) reports a font of the Perpendicular period in this church. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period, a noteworthy example. [NB: some pre-1988 sources put St. Mary's in Cambridgeshire, although St. Mary's belonged historically to Suffolk, whereas All Saints' was in Cambridgeshire]. Illustrated in context in Knott (2007?). The font, located at the west end of the central nave, is octagonal, the basin with shields and floral motifs in foiled panels of the sides; on an octagonal pedestal base with decorated sides (tracery?) and a modern plinth. The wooden cover is an octagonal pyramid; appears modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.330332, -0.184661
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 19′ 49.19″ N, 0° 11′ 4.78″ W
UTM: 30U 691829 5801512

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,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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: 2009-11-05 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855