Bradfield Combust / Bradfield / Bradfield St Clare / Bradfield St George
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
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Results: 15 records
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 April 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/bradcombust.html] [accessed 10 November 2009]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving by J. Basire in Repton (1812)
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cautley, 1938
Image Source: Cautley (1938)
Copyright Instructions: reproduction permission received from the publisher
design element - architectural - window - quatrefoiled
Scene Description: re-cut in the 15th century; on one of the basin sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 14 April 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/bradcombust.html] [accessed 10 November 2009]
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design element - architectural - arch - trefoiled - 2
Scene Description: re-cut in the 15th century; on one of the basin sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 14 April 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/bradcombust.html] [accessed 10 November 2009]
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design element - motifs - scallop - trumpet scallop
Scene Description: all around the lower basin side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 14 April 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/bradcombust.html] [accessed 10 November 2009]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: one at the top and another at the bottom of the cylindrical shaft of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 14 April 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/bradcombust.html] [accessed 10 November 2009]
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view of font - northeast side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Ron Baxter, 2005
Image Source: B&W digital photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.csbri.ac.uk/ed/sf/bradf/] [accessed 1 March 2006]
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view of basin - east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Ron Baxter, 2005
Image Source: B&W digital photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.csbri.ac.uk/ed/sf/bradf/] [accessed 1 March 2006]
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view of basin - north side
Scene Description: notice the repair and insert
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Ron Baxter, 2005
Image Source: B&W digital photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.csbri.ac.uk/ed/sf/bradf/] [accessed 1 March 2006]
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view of basin - southeast side
Scene Description: notice the repair and insert
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Ron Baxter, 2005
Image Source: B&W digital photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.csbri.ac.uk/ed/sf/bradf/] [accessed 1 March 2006]
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view of basin - northeast side - detail
Scene Description: one of the heads on the underbowl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Ron Baxter, 2005
Image Source: B&W digital photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.csbri.ac.uk/ed/sf/bradf/] [accessed 1 March 2006]
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view of basin - northwest side - detail
Scene Description: one of the heads on the underbowl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Ron Baxter, 2005
Image Source: B&W digital photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.csbri.ac.uk/ed/sf/bradf/] [accessed 1 March 2006]
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view of basin - southeast side
Scene Description: one of the heads on the underbowl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Ron Baxter, 2005
Image Source: B&W digital photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.csbri.ac.uk/ed/sf/bradf/] [accessed 1 March 2006]
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view of basin - southwest side - detail
Scene Description: one of the heads on the underbowl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Ron Baxter, 2005
Image Source: B&W digital photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.csbri.ac.uk/ed/sf/bradf/] [accessed 1 March 2006]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01847BRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [re-cut in the 14th or 15th century], Norman [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, S aisle of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: 7 The St, Bradfield Combust, Bury Saint Edmunds IP30 0LP, UK
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A134, about 6 km SSE of Bury St Edmunds
Historical Region: Hundred of Thedwastre
Additional Comments: MUST USE - recycled font: Norman font re-cut with 14th or 15th-century motif -- altered font -- disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for Bradifiel [Combust, St Clare and St George] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/bradfield-combust-st-clare-and-st-george/] [accessed 14 October 2018], one of which reports "1 church. 0.08 church lands" in it. Gough (1792) reports a font here, "square, on a round pillar." Described and illustrated with an engraving by J. Basire in Repton (1812) as a baptismal font "from about the reign of King Henry the Sixth to that of Henry the Eighth" [i.e., 1422-1509+]. Parker (1855) notes a "very good" Norman font. Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a "good example of a square Norman bowl on a circular shaft". Repton does not mention the possibility that the font may have been an old one re-cut, and Cox & Harvey make any mention of the presence of a large quatre-foil window with centre floral motif and a trefoil arch at either side of it cut on one of the sides of the basin on a Norman font, as they categorise it [although Repton makes a point of stating that not all square fonts are as early as generally thought, and uses the example of Lindfield [cf. Index entry] to prove his point]. Cautley (1938) illustrates this font and describes it as "12th century, re-cut in 15th century". The basin is of the cushion-capital type, with scalloped pattern [four semicircles per side] on its lower basin side; the angles are ornamented with what appears to be heads. The base is a cylindrical pedestal plain but for an upper and lower roll moulding; raised on a plain octagonal plinth. Cautley's photograph of ca. 1938 shows it with a plain font cover that has a flat square bottom but an octagonal pyramidal upper volume. Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2005) with original date of the 12th century. recut "perhaps in the 14thc". Described and illustrated in Knott (2008): "very good Norman font, with its decoration added a couple of centuries later when there was a fashion for that kind of thing".
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 347286 5783581
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.18153, 0.7663
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 10′ 53.51″ N, 0° 45′ 58.68″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Diameter (inside rim): 60 cm*
Basin Total Height: 47 cm*
Height of Base: [45 cm [calculated]
Font Height (less Plinth): 92 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 72 x 73 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2005)
LID INFORMATION
Date: 18th-19th century?
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk Churches and their Treasures, London: Batsford, 1938, fig. (??)
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 218, 220
- Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; p. 199
- Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]
- Repton, John Adey, "Specimens of Fonts, collected from different Churches, by John Adey Repton, Esq. F.A.S. In a Letter addressed to Craven Ord, Esq. F.R.S. and F.A.S.V.P., read 12th March, 1807", XVI, Archaeologia, 1812, pp. 335-337 and pl. XXXVII-XLV; p. 336-337 and pl. XL fig. 3