Buxhall
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Standing permission
Results: 5 records
B01: design element - patterns - tracery
Scene Description: crocketed arch-head, inscribed quatrefoils, etc.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 4 February 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/buxhall.htm] [accessed 28 October 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
BBL01: human figure - head - 8
Scene Description: some damaged
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 4 February 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/buxhall.htm] [accessed 28 October 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
BBU01: design element - patterns - crenellated
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 4 February 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/buxhall.htm] [accessed 28 October 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
BU01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 4 February 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/buxhall.htm] [accessed 28 October 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font in context
Scene Description: at the west end of the nave, lokking east towards the altar
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 February 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/buxhall.htm] [accessed 28 October 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01865BUX
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century [basin only?] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Stowmarket IP14 3DJ, United Kingdom
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6 km SW of Stowmarket
Additional Comments: altered font? / composite font
Font Notes:
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Described in Parker (1855): "Font, D[ecorated], of very excellent design; the bowl is an octagon, with three-foil panels, over which are angular crocketed canopies." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy example of 14th-century fonts. Noted in Cautley (1982) as a baptismal font of the 14th century; fonts of this type in the county at Brettenham, Chelsworth, Walsham-le-Willows, as well as the best fonts of the period at Hemingstone, Kessingland, Wortham, Wickham Market and Rattesden. Illustrated in Knott (2008). The plain pedestal base does not seem to stand up to the complex decoration of the basin and may be a later replacement.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 358247 5783439
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.183181, 0.926567
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 10′ 59.45″ N, 0° 55′ 35.64″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal; modern?
REFERENCES
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982, p. 66
- 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.
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]