Flempton
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BU01:
design element - motifs - moulding
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LB01:
design element - motifs - moulding
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 November 2006 by Brokentaco [http://www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/265212156/] [accessed 11 November 2009]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01868FLE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Catherine of Alexandria
Church Patron Saints: St. Catherine of Alexandria [aka Katherine, Katharine]
Church Location: 1 Bury Rd, Flempton, Bury Saint Edmunds IP28 6EJ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1284 753984
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located on the A1101, 8 km NW of Bury St Edmunds, 10 km SE of Mildenhall
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Noted in Parker (1855) as a font of the Decorated period. The National Gazetteer of 1868 remarks: "The pulpit and font are curious specimens of antique workmanship". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one in a very large group of baptismal fonts that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins. The underbowl is moulded, as is the octagonal pedestal base. The wooden font is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.2977,
0.658
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 17′ 51.72″ N,
0° 39′ 28.8″ E
UTM: 31U 340300 5796733
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: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
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
