Chevington / Ceuentuna / Cheveton / Chevintun / Civentone

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Results: 9 records
design element - architectural - buttress - 8
design element - motifs - moulding
design element - patterns - tracery
symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - in a circle - in a square - 8
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]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of church interior - nave - looking west
view of font and cover
INFORMATION
FontID: 01878CHE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Church Road Chevington Suffolk IP29 5QH, UK -- Tel.: +44 1284 850045
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
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
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font
Font Notes:
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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.
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
Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-11-11 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.