Leiston
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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches
Scene Description: six (?) very wide trefoil arches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cautley, 1938
Image Source: B&W photograph in Cautley (1938)
Copyright Instructions: reproduction permission received from the publisher
BBU01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: around the upper rim side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cautley, 1938
Image Source: B&W photograph in Cautley (1938)
Copyright Instructions: reproduction permission received from the publisher
LB01: design element - patterns - scalloped
Scene Description: tiny scalloped pattern between the bases of the columns
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cautley, 1938
Image Source: B&W photograph in Cautley (1938)
Copyright Instructions: reproduction permission received from the publisher
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Image Source: engraving in Suckling (1846-1848)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Bond (1908)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01848LEI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Notes: James (1930) lists the original site as a Premonstratensian monastery.
Church Address: Church Rd, Leiston IP16 4HG, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1728 830421
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the Suffolk Heritage Coast, N of Alderburgh, 30-35 km ENE of Ipswich
Font Notes:
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An engraving of this font appears in Suckling (1846-1848), who visited the church in 1824, thirty years before its reopening after the restoration in 1854. Described and illustrated in Parker (1855). Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a 13th-century font of striking unadorned simplicity; a hemispherical bowl rests on a heavy pedestal and six lighter [constructional] shafts which continue along the side of the bowl as trefoil arches. The lower base has a pattern of tiny scallop motif between the bases of the columns. Described and illustrated in Cautley (1938) and (1982) as one of the best fonts of the 13th century in this county. The CRSBI (2008) notes other cauldron-shaped fonts at Spixworth and Belaugh, both in Norfolk.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 402156 5784998
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.206727, 1.56811
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 12′ 24.22″ N, 1° 34′ 5.2″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: [cf. Font notes]
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat wooden lid with chalice-finial shown in Cautley (ca. 1938)
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 57, 209, 211, 217, 225 and ill. on p. 59
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk Churches and their Treasures, London: Batsford, 1938, fig. (??)
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982, p. 66 and pl. 48
- 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
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged] and pl. 99
- Suckling, Alfred, The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk, with genealogical and architectural notices of its several towns and villages, London: John Weale [...], 1846-1848, ill. in vol. 2: 450