Barsham No. 1 / Bersham
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Holy Trinity Church, Barsham"
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Image Source: digital photograph 7 February 2013 by Evelyn Simak [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holy_Trinity_Church,_Barsham_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3323880.jpg] [accessed 10 February 2023]
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view of font
Scene Description: to the right of the Etchingham tomb
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/barsham.html]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - zigzag
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 7 February 2013 by Evelyn Simak [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holy_Trinity_Church,_Barsham_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3323880.jpg] [accessed 10 February 2023]
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design element - motifs - floral
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 7 February 2013 by Evelyn Simak [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holy_Trinity_Church,_Barsham_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3323880.jpg] [accessed 10 February 2023]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Barsham church, Suffolk, from the NE, showing the east gable and window with fretty tracery and flushwork, possibly representing the heraldic bearing of the Echyngham family."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eebahgum, 2020
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 9 March 2020 by Eebahgum [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barsham_church,_Suffolk_from_NE.jpg] [accessed 10 February 2023]
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Most Holy Trinity church, Barsham"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Helen Steed, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph 8 September 2018 by Helen Steed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Most_Holy_Trinity_church,_Barsham_(geograph_5931100).jpg] [accessed 10 February 2023]
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view of church exterior - east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a F. Bedford lithograph from a drawing by Albert Suckling in Suckling (1846)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01863BAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity
Church Notes: round-tower church
Church Address: Barsham with Shipmeadow, Beccles, Suffolk, NR34 8HA, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1986 892553
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B1062, E of Bungay
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Wangford [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: rescued font: abandoned, later restored to the church, but no longer used for baptisms
Font Notes:
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There are five entries for Barsham [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM3989/barsham/] [accessed 10 February 2023]; one of the entries reports "0.5 churches, 016 church lands" in it. Bond (1908) describes only the font cover -without a word about the font itself- as one of a common late type "brought from Ellingham in 1892", which "consists of an octagonal lid, molded on the edge, which bears eight radiating trusses, rising from the angles and meeting at the head of a central baluster-shaped post, just below the finial, roughly suggesting a crown." Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a baptismal font that had been cast out of the church, later restored to the church but no longer used for baptism; it is decorated with floral and zigzag motifs. The font reported by Tyrrell-Green above is probably a quadrangular Norman bowl which, as reported in Knott (2008), was found under the chapel floorboards ca. 1900 by Frederick Eden, one of the assistants to Charles Kempe, the architect responsible of the restoration of this church at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th; this font is now situated next to the Etchingham tomb [Knott [cf. supra] notes that the other assistant to Kempe was the then young Ninian Comper]. Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble , "bowl with zig-zag aptterns on faces; it is disused" [gives Pevsner's Suffolk, 1961 as source]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for the photographs of the church and fonts.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 399861 5812303
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.45172, 1.526397
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 27′ 6.19″ N, 1° 31′ 35.03″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 220
- Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
- Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975, p. 69
- 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, vol. 1: 42
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 40, 80, 104