Knodishall / Knoddishall / Cnotesheala / Cnotesheale / Chenotessala
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 16
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 24 April 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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view of base
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1100426006_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 24 April 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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view of church exterior - southwest view
![Source caption: "Knodishall St Lawrence’s church [...] The purbeck font is typical 13th century example with shallow carving on the bowl. It has a central shaft and eight detached columns."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1240601014_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Knodishall St Lawrence’s church [...] The purbeck font is typical 13th century example with shallow carving on the bowl. It has a central shaft and eight detached columns."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrian S Pye, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph 15 February 2007 by Adrian S Pye [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2102343] [accessed 1 June 2024]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Inside St.Lawrence Church" -- the old font is partially visible in the bottom-left corner of the image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Geaographer, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 26 January 2015 by Geographer [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St.Lawrence_Church_Font_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4326331.jpg] [accessed 1 June 2024]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 April 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Mid-13th-century baptismal font in St Lawrence's parish church, Knodishall, Suffolk"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David / Brokentaco, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 25 May 2009 by David / Brokentaco [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Lawrence's_church_Knodishall_Suffolk_(4730251632).jpg] [accessed 1 June 2024]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "St.Lawrence Church. Font"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Geaographer, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 26 January 2015 by Geographer [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St.Lawrence_Church_Font_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4326328.jpg] [accessed 1 June 2024]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01862KNO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Laurence [aka St. Lawrence]
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: Knodishall, Saxmundham IP17 1TW, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B1119, equidistant (5-6 km) between Saxmundham and Leiston
Historical Region: Hundred of Blything
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century [restored], Early English [altered]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janice Tostevin for her photograph of this font
Font Notes:
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There are four entries for Knodishall [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM4261/knodishall/] [accessed 1 June 2024], one of which mentions "2 churches. 0.2 church lands" in it. Described in Parker (1855): "Font, an octagon, with slightly sunk panels on the bowl; it has a stout pedestal, at the angles of which are engaged shafts" [cf. infra]. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. The font is in extremely good repair, obviously having undergone a thorough restoration and re-tooling; the support as reported in Parker [cf. supra] appears to have been modified, consisting now of a broad central shaft and eight detached colonnettes at the angles; raised on an octagonal lower base; the whole support area appears modern, as does the flat octagonal wooden font cover. Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TM4259261952] notes: "Parish church. Mainly C14 and C15, much restored C19 [...] Octagonal font c1250, on central pillar with 8 smaller pillars around it".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.2, 1.55
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 12′ 0″ N, 1° 33′ 0″ E
UTM: 31U 400904 5784274
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble?)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: no lining
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wod, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855