Chevington / Ceuentuna / Cheveton / Chevintun / Civentone
Image copyright © John Salmon, 2012
CC-BY-SA-2.0
Results: 9 records
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3141700] [accessed 17 December 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 April 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/chevington.htm] [accessed 11 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - in a circle - in a square - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 April 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/chevington.htm] [accessed 11 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - patterns - tracery
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 April 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/chevington.htm] [accessed 11 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "All Saints: the parish church of Chevington. This attractive church dates back to the Normans and was enlarged during the perpendicular period."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robert Edwards, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 March 2011 by Robert Edwards [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2300027] [accessed 17 December 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - looking west
![showing the font at the far [west] end](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1171217036_compressed.png)
Scene Description: showing the font at the far [west] end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3141681] [accessed 17 December 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3141678] [accessed 17 December 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
design element - architectural - buttress - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 April 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/chevington.htm] [accessed 11 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 April 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/chevington.htm] [accessed 11 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01878CHE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Church Road Chevington Suffolk IP29 5QH, UK -- Tel.: +44 1284 850045
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A143, near Hargrave, 9 km SW of Bury St. Edmunds
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Thingoe
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
Click to view
There is an entry for Chevington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TL7860/chevington/] [accessed 17 December 2017]; it reports "1 church. 0.25 church lands" in it. The font here is not mentioned in Parker (1855). Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Noted and illustrated in Knott (2008): "the font shows signs of iconoclastic attack. The panel on the west side has had a great chunk taken out of it, probably with an axe, and crude graffiti in a 17th century hand has been scrawled in one of the shields. As the font carries no religious imagery, the iconoclasm must have been intended as an attack on the idea of the font itself." The octagonal basin is covered in tracery, including blank shileds in quatrefoils; the octagonal pedestal base has butresses at the angles; the lower base is moulded. No plinth.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 336964 5786634
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes about graffiti on one of the shields]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, with inscription on the moulded sides; turned finial
REFERENCES
- 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.