Hemingstone / Hamigestuna / Hamingestuna / Haminghelanda

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Results: 12 records

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design element - architectural - arch-head - trefoiled - crocketed - 8

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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design element - architectural - buttress - 8

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 - motifs - tracery

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

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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head - 8

Scene Description: this one appears to be animal [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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symbol - cross

Scene Description: a later addition? [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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view of basin and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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view of church exterior - northeast view

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

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 and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/hemingstone.html] [accessed 25 May 2009]

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view of font cover

Scene Description: mostly Victorian, except for the finial [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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view of font cover - finial

Scene Description: said to be original of the 15th century

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01870HEM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Gregory

Church Patron Saints: St. Gregory the Great

Church Location: Church Ln, Hemingstone, Ipswich IP6 9RH, UK -- Tel.: +44 449 711684

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 11 km N of Ipswich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Edmundsbury & Ipswich

Historical Region: Hundred of Bosmere

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, centre aisle

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Late Decorated? / Early Perpendicular?

Cognate Fonts: the font at Wortham is somewhat similar

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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.13976, 1.13273

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 8′ 23.14″ N, 1° 7′ 57.83″ E

UTM: 31U 372216 5778227

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

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

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: 2009-05-25 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.

Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855