Wickham Market

Results: 9 records

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B01: design element - architectural - niche - crocketed and cusped - 8

Scene Description: one on each panel of the basin

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 1998

B02: design element - patterns - tracery

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 1998

B03: design element - architectural - buttress - crocketed pinnacle - 8

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 1998

BU01: animal - head - 8

Scene Description: one at each angle of the chamfer

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 1998

LB01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - double arcade (up and down) - trefoiled arches - 32

Scene Description: four arches per side on the pedestal base

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 1998

view of church exterior - portal

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 1998

view of church exterior - west tower

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 1998

view of font

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Bond (1908)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 1998

INFORMATION

FontID: 01872WIC

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: All Saints Church, Crown Ln, Wickham Market, Woodbridge IP13 0SA, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 18-20 km NNE of Ipswich, on the B1116, just west of the A12

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated

Cognate Fonts: Hemingstone and Wortham, also in Suffolk

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Parker (1855) as a fine octagonal font of the Decorated period "with trefoil panels and crocketed canopies […] very excellent". The 9 July 1872 Oxford Meeting of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology [http://books.google.ca/books] [accessed 17 March 2009] reports on a visit to this church: "The gem of the church is the font, a most beautiful specimen of late Decorated work, octagonal, with trefoil panels and corcketed canopies. It has been carefully cleaned, and is quite unmutilated, while sufficient of its original painting remains to convey a clear idea of how the colouring is arranged. We trust that no restoration of the colouring may be attempted." Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a 14th-century octagonal mounted baptismal font; each side of the basin is ornamented with an straight arch containing a pentafoil window; the arch or niche, as Bond (ibid.) describes it, "was a straight-sided pediment, richly crocketed and cusped, and crowned with a foliated finial"; the angles of the chamfer are ornamented with animal heads. The pedestal base is also octagonal and ornamented with a double (top and bottom) blind arcade of pairs of trefoil arches, making thus a total of thirty-two; the lower base is octagonal and splayed. It had traces of painting that were later removed. Noted in Cautley (1982) as a font of the 14th century. On-site notes: the basin well is lead-lined and has a central drainage hole.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.1524, 1.3641

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 9′ 8.64″ N, 1° 21′ 50.76″ E

UTM: 31U 388080 5779251

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead lining

Rim Thickness: 7-9 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 51 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 67-72 cm

Basin Depth: 23 cm

Height of Basin Side: 38 cm

Basin Total Height: 49 cm

Height of Base: 66 cm

Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: 34 high x 29 cm wide

Font Height (less Plinth): 105 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

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

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