Hoo nr. Wickham Market
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B01: angel - holding shield - coat of arms - unidentified - 4
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B02: Apostle or saint? - unidentified - 4
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BU01: angel - cherub - 8
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BU02: design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 8
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UB01: animal - mammal - lion - sejant - 4
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UB01: design element - architectural - buttress - 4
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view of font in context
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01715HOO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Paris church of St. Andrew and St. Eustachius
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew and St. Eustachius
Church Location: Church Ln, Hoo, Woodbridge IP13 7QT, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 6-7 km NW of Wickham Market
Historical Region: formerly Norfolk
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Suffolk Churches, for his photograph of this font
Font Notes:
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Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports "a curiously sculptured font" in this church. Listed in Cox-Harvey (1907) as a stone baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Listed in Cautley (1982) in a group of 15th-century heraldic fonts in Suffolk. Illustrated in Knott (2008). The octagonal basin has deeply-carved sides with four angels holding charged shields alternating with unidentified figures; the underbowl chamfer has two levels: the upper one has angel heads, the lower one has a rosette on each side; the stem is square, with sedente lions at the angles and buttresses on the sides.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.185813, 1.299108
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 11' 8.9" N, 1° 17' 56.8" E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
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.
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831