Haughley

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B01: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion - with scroll

Image Source: digtal photograph taken in June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B02: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - St. George

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B03: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew - symbol - angel - with scroll

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B04: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - See of Ely (three crowns)

Scene Description: or Bury St. Edmund's Abbey

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B05: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion - with scroll

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B06: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - Trinity

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B07: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - symbol - eagle

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B08: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - Eucharist (three cups with wafers)

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BU01: angel - head

Scene Description: one of eight; some very badly damaged

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BU02: angel - head

Scene Description: one of eight; some very badly damaged

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BU03: angel - head

Scene Description: one of eight; some very badly damaged

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UB01: human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose - with object

Scene Description: appears to be holding a hat that covers its genitals

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 March 2009 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/haughley.htm] [accessed 29 October 2009]

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UB02: animal - mammal - lion - sejant

Scene Description: one of four; badly damaged

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UB03: human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose - with object

Scene Description: is it a broken club?

Image Source: digtal photograph taken in June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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UB04: animal - mammal - lion - sejant

Scene Description: one of four

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UB05: human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose - with club

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 March 2009 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/haughley.htm] [accessed 29 October 2009]

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UB06: animal - mammal - lion - sejant

Scene Description: one of four

Image Source: digtal photograph taken in June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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UB07: human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose - with club

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 March 2009 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/haughley.htm] [accessed 29 October 2009]

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UB08: animal - mammal - lion - sejant

Scene Description: one of four

view of base - detail

Scene Description: one of the club-wealding woodwooses

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 March 2009 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/haughley.htm] [accessed 29 October 2009]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digtal photograph taken in June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 March 2009 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/haughley.htm] [accessed 29 October 2009]

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view of font base

Scene Description: four sedente lions alternating with four woodwoses on the stem of the base [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 March 2009 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/haughley.htm] [accessed 29 October 2009]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01881HAU

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary

Church Location: Duke St, Haughley, Stowmarket IP14 3QT, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1449 770921

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 5 km NW of Stowmarket [Coordinates: 52° 13′ 15.6″ N, 0° 58′ 4.8″ E 52.221, 0.968]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglian font / Evangelists' font / heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described in Parker (1855): "Font, an octagon, with panels and sculpture on the bowl". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. The Haughley St Mary's web site [http://homepages.tesco.net/~Haughley/Church.htm] describes and illustrates the font [with information from the 1998 Church Guide by Josephine Gibson]: "The font consists of a pedestal and bowl carved from limestone, the inside of the bowl being lined with lead. The bowl is octagonal in shape and has eight carved panels. Four of the panels contain the symbols of the evangelists: Matthew (an angel with a scroll / Mark (a lion) / Luke (an ox) / John (an eagle). The four other panels feature angels holding: A St. George's cross / The Holy Communion symbol (three cups and three wafers) / The arms of Bury St. Edmund's Abbey / The Y-shaped Trinity emblem. The pedestal is carved with four lions and four naked hairy wildmen or 'woodwoses'. Three of the wildmen are carrying clubs [...] Many of the figures of the font have damaged faces [...] The font cover was made in 1979 by churchwarden Mr George Parry, using wood from HMS Ganges, a naval training base. The is still used today for christenings [...]" Described and illustrated in Knott (2009): "At the west end of the aisle stands the font, a fine example of the typical East Anglian design. The symbols of the four evangelists are a bit battered, but some Catholic symbolism survives, suggesting that it was bashed about a bit and then plastered over. The Puritans are often blamed for this sort of thing, but most fonts were attacked by the Anglicans a century earlier, and I think that was the case with this one. The woodwoses around the stem are super, and all of them different, perhaps the best in Suffolk"

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.2217, 0.96485

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 13′ 18.12″ N, 0° 57′ 53.46″ E

UTM: 31U 360984 5787649

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

Basin Total Height: 49 cm*

Height of Base: 65 cm [calculated]

Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: 34 x 39 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 114 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [measurements courtesy of Janice Tostevin]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1979

Material: wood, oak?

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

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: 2009-10-29 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.

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