Lakenheath

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B01: design element - motifs - foliage - stiff-leaf

Scene Description: around the sides of the arches

Image Source: Cautley (1938)

Copyright Instructions: reproduction permission received from the publisher

B02: design element - architectural - arcade - Gothic arches - 8

Scene Description: each arch corresponding to a side of the octagonal basin

Image Source: Cautley (1938)

Copyright Instructions: reproduction permission received from the publisher

BBL01: design element - patterns - diaper

Scene Description: all around the side of the inner central shaft

Image Source: Tyrrell-Green (1928: fig. 8)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font

Image Source: Tyrrell-Green (1928: fig. 8)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font

Image Source: Cautley (1938)

Copyright Instructions: reproduction permission received from the publisher

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Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/lakenheath.htm] [accessed 25 May 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font cover

Scene Description: the modern cover

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/lakenheath.htm] [accessed 25 May 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 01859LAK

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: 63 High St, Lakenheath, Brandon IP27 9DS, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1842 861819

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 25-30 km WNW of Bury St Edmunds (follow the A1101 to Icklingham; there, take the B1112 at the forking (right turn) and follow it, past Eriswell, to Lakenheath)

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 13th century, Early English

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Boydell Press for their permission to reproduce Cautley's B&W photograph of this font. We are also grateful to Simon Knott, of Suffolk Churches, for his photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Parker (1855) notes: "The font is very good E[arly] E[nglish], octagonal, on a central stem, with eight detached shafts; the basin is covered with stiff-leaf foliage, with the tooth ornament under it." Described and illustrated in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Described and illustrated in Cautley (1938) and (1982) as a baptismal font of the 13th century, "by far the most beautiful example of this period in the county --possibly in the country". The octagonal basin is mounted on a central polygonal pillar and eight rounded outer colonnettes that stem from the arches of the basin side; these colonnettes have capitals and bases ornamented with roll mouldings; the basin side has foliage motif ornamentation around the sides of the pointed arches; the inside of the arches on the lower basin side are ornamented with dog-tooth motif; the outer colonnettes of the base appear to be of two widths, alternating thicker and thinner. The whole is raised on a circular plinth. The wooden cover is modern, a stylised gilded octagonal pyramid with a dove finial.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.415752, 0.519377

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 24′ 56.71″ N, 0° 31′ 9.76″ E

UTM: 31U 331299 5810176

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk Churches and their Treasures, London: Batsford, 1938

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: 2009-05-25 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.

Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928