Coney Weston
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Standing permission
Results: 5 records
B01: design element - motifs - floral
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 March 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/coneyweston.html] [accessed 2 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B02: design element - motifs - foliage
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 March 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/coneyweston.html] [accessed 2 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B03: design element - patterns - tracery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 March 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/coneyweston.html] [accessed 2 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 March 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/coneyweston.html] [accessed 2 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font and cover at the west end, behind the south bank of pews
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 March 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/coneyweston.html] [accessed 2 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 01866CON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Coney Weston, Bury Saint Edmunds IP31 1HQ, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located about 15 kms WNW of Bury-St-Edmunds; access from the A1088 at Honington which, besides being a lovely town, has an interesting baptismal font well-worth a visit.
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, S side
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this church and font
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. Noted and illustrated in Knott (2008). The octagonal basin has tracery, floral and foliage motifs on the sides; octagonal pedestal base. The cover is an octagonal pyramid with slightly curved sides; knob finial.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.367825, 0.894400
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
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: 2009-11-02 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855