Wortham / Wortham Everard
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B01: design element - architectural - tracery
Scene Description: "Each side containing a triangular crocketted canopy, the heads of which, and the spandrils, are enriched with foliated circles." (Paley, 1844, unpaged).
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BBL01: human figure - head - 8
Scene Description: a human head, mostly mutilated now, at each of the lower arris of the octagonal basin.
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BBU01: design element - patterns - crenellated
Scene Description: around the upper basin side
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01874WOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Cognate Fonts: Wickham Market and Redgrave, as well as Hemingstone, all in Suffolk; a 19th-century almost replica of this font in Maddington St. Mary's, Wiltshire
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Thomas and St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, S side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Thomas and St. Mary
Church Address: Church Rd,, Wortham, United Kingdom
Wortham
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A143, about 8 km W of Diss
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Paley (1844), who gives the font at Regrave, also in Suffolk, as "one very similar in character". Noted in Parker (1855) as a good octagonal font in the Decorated style. Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a 14th-century, Decorated period, octagonal mounted baptismal font; the basin is straight-sided, with richly crocketed and cusped angular arches; each panel is framed within prominent buttresses which rest on human heads at the lower basin side. The basin of this font is similar -though not identical- to the one of the font at Wickham Market, but the octagonal pedestal here is plain; the splayed lower base is slightly wider and plain. The wider plinth is also octagonal and plain. Cautley (1982) notes its similarity to the font at Hemingstone.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 367763 5801802
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.350542, 1.058474
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 21′ 1.95″ N, 1° 3′ 30.5″ 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 & base
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Rim Thickness: 14 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 54 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 82.5 cm
Basin Depth: 37.5 cm
Basin Total Height: 60 cm
Height of Base: 45 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 105 cm
Notes on Measurements: Paley (1844: unpaged)
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 229 and ill. on p. 232
- Buck, A.G. Randle, "Some Wiltshire fonts. Part III", LIV, CXCV (December 1951), The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1951, pp. 192-209; p. 202
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982, p. 66
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 220
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 12, 16 et al.
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]