Hemingstone / Hamigestuna / Hamingestuna / Haminghelanda
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/hemingstone.html] [accessed 25 May 2009]
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human figure - head - 8
![this one appears to be animal [cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1100502003_compressed.png)
Scene Description: this one appears to be animal [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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design element - architectural - arch-head - trefoiled - crocketed - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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design element - motifs - tracery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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view of basin and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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design element - patterns - crenellated
Scene Description: note that the upper rim appears to be a separate piece from the rest of the basin block
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/hemingstone.html] [accessed 25 May 2009]
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design element - architectural - buttress - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/hemingstone.html] [accessed 25 May 2009]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2009 by David [https://flickr.com/photos/92024986@N00/4000479865] [accessed 11 October 2019]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Helen Steed, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2011 by Helen Steed [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2552896] [accessed 11 October 2019]
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view of font cover - finial
Scene Description: said to be original of the 15th century
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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view of font cover
![mostly Victorian, except for the finial [cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1100502005_compressed.png)
Scene Description: mostly Victorian, except for the finial [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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symbol - cross
![a later addition? [cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1100502004_compressed.png)
Scene Description: a later addition? [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01870HEM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Late Decorated? / Early Perpendicular?
Cognate Fonts: the font at Wortham is somewhat similar
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Gregory
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, centre aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Gregory the Great
Church Address: Church Ln, Hemingstone, Ipswich IP6 9RH, UK -- Tel.: +44 449 711684
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 11 km N of Ipswich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Bosmere
Font Notes:
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There is a multiple-place entry for eighteen places, including Hemingstone [variant spellings]; one of these places, listed in the Land of Roger of Poitou, reports "1.5 churches. 0.15 church lands" in it; the others do not mention cleric or church in them. Parker (1855) notes: "The font is fine D[ecorated], with rich tracery and crocketed canopies on the bowl; it has a small cover." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy example of Decorated fonts. Described and illustrated in Cautley (1982) as one of the most beautiful fonts of the 14th century in the county, somewhat like the font at Wortham. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TM1446653646] notes: "Parish church, medieval with main features of mid C14 and early C16. [...] Late C14 octagonal limestone font: the stem is plain, but the bowl intricately carved with crocketed gables and tracery." Described and illustrated in Knott (2008) with date in the 15th century. The octagonal basin has a crenellated upper rim; there are ogee arch-heads around the lower sides, their crocketed canopies and the additional tracery between them, and buttresses at the corners filling the sides completely; the buttresses end in heads at the bottom, the heads animal in appearance, though much eroded for positive identification; moulded underbowl chamfer tapering to an octagonal pedestal base that appears plain, but the southeast side has an incised cross on it[NB: perhaps a later addition?]; octagonal plinth with kneeling extension. Buffet-type font cover with some openwork; appears Victorian, but the finial is said to be original of the 15th century.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Suffolk Churches [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk], and to Janice Tostevin for their photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 372216 5778227
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.13976, 1.13273
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 8′ 23.14″ N, 1° 7′ 57.83″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: 15th- and 19th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no; buffet type
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982, p. 66 and pl. 49
- 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]