Willisham / Willesham
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B01: angel - holding shield - coat of arms - St. Edmund
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/others/permission_not_available.jpg)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Offton & Willisham Parish, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in the Offton & Willisham Parish web [http://www.offtonandwillisham.org.uk/StMarysChurch.aspx] accessed 16 April 2009]
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B03: design element - motifs - floral - rose - 4
Scene Description: of varied types: Tudor, etc.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Offton & Willisham Parish, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in the Offton & Willisham Parish web [http://www.offtonandwillisham.org.uk/StMarysChurch.aspx] accessed 16 April 2009]
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BU01: angel - cherub - head - 8
Scene Description: at the upper angles of the underbowl chamfer
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Offton & Willisham Parish, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in the Offton & Willisham Parish web [http://www.offtonandwillisham.org.uk/StMarysChurch.aspx] accessed 16 April 2009]
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BU02: design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 8
Scene Description: on the lower sides of the underbowl chamfer
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Offton & Willisham Parish, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in the Offton & Willisham Parish web [http://www.offtonandwillisham.org.uk/StMarysChurch.aspx] accessed 16 April 2009]
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LB01: animal - mammal - lion - sejant - 4
Scene Description: alternating with thin buttresses
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Offton & Willisham Parish, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in the Offton & Willisham Parish web [http://www.offtonandwillisham.org.uk/StMarysChurch.aspx] accessed 16 April 2009]
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LB02: design element - architectural - buttress - 4
Scene Description: alternating with sedente lions
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Offton & Willisham Parish, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in the Offton & Willisham Parish web [http://www.offtonandwillisham.org.uk/StMarysChurch.aspx] accessed 16 April 2009]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Offton & Willisham Parish, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph in the Offton & Willisham Parish web [http://www.offtonandwillisham.org.uk/StMarysChurch.aspx] accessed 16 April 2009]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font and cover at the back
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Offton & Willisham Parish, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph in the Offton & Willisham Parish web [http://www.offtonandwillisham.org.uk/StMarysChurch.aspx] accessed 16 April 2009]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01873WIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font / heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary [permanently closed]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, centre aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Barking Rd, Ipswich IP8 4SL, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 7719 208444
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located W of Somersham
Additional Comments: re-cycled font (originally from the old church) -- destroyed stoup?
Font Notes:
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Described in Parker (1855): "Font, D[ecorated]; an octagon, with angels and shields in the panels of the bowl, and animals round the pedestal." Dowsing (1885) reports on his visit to this church in 1643/1644 "An Holy Water Font in the Chancel", but does not say whether they destroyed or defaced it or not.
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy example of 14th-century fonts. Knott (1999, 2008) informs that the 19th-century church "retains the medieval font of the former church on this site inside". The Offton & Willisham Parish web site [http://www.offtonandwillisham.org.uk/StMarysChurch.aspx] [accessed 16 April 2009] notes: "All that remains of the old church is the beautiful octagonal font [...] The 15th century carved stone, octagonal font includes in its fine carvings the crown and arrow arms of St Edmund, who was King of the East Angles and who was martyred by Danish invaders in 869 AD". The font, of the East Anglia type, has large shields alternating with angels holding smaller shields on the sides of the basin, some shields blank now, with the exception of the large one carved with St. Edmund's arms; there are cherub heads at the angles of the underbowl chanfer, with rosettes (Tudor roses?] on the lower part of the chamfer; the octagonal pedestal has figures (?) on the panels. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle.
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy example of 14th-century fonts. Knott (1999, 2008) informs that the 19th-century church "retains the medieval font of the former church on this site inside". The Offton & Willisham Parish web site [http://www.offtonandwillisham.org.uk/StMarysChurch.aspx] [accessed 16 April 2009] notes: "All that remains of the old church is the beautiful octagonal font [...] The 15th century carved stone, octagonal font includes in its fine carvings the crown and arrow arms of St Edmund, who was King of the East Angles and who was martyred by Danish invaders in 869 AD". The font, of the East Anglia type, has large shields alternating with angels holding smaller shields on the sides of the basin, some shields blank now, with the exception of the large one carved with St. Edmund's arms; there are cherub heads at the angles of the underbowl chanfer, with rosettes (Tudor roses?] on the lower part of the chamfer; the octagonal pedestal has figures (?) on the panels. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 364650 5775557
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.11397, 1.0233
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 6′ 50.29″ N, 1° 1′ 23.88″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 220
- Dowsing, William, of Stratford, The Journal of William Dowsing, of Stratford, Parliamentary visitor, appointed under a warrant from the Earl of Manchester, for demolishing the superstitious pictures and ornaments of churches &c., within the County of Suffolk, in the years 1643-1644, Ipswich: Pawsey and Hayes, 1885, p. 30
- 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]