Lavenham / Lauen / Laven

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design element - motifs - floral

Scene Description: a large floral (?) motif takes up the whole side on the extreme right here; it is one of two basin sides that is not divided into two rectangular frames with human figures in them -- notice also the hole bored into the side of the upper rim, and the pattern decorating the upper rim, of which little remains

Image Source: digital photograph taken by David Ross [www.britainexpress.com/photos.htm?attraction=4937] [accessed 15 December 2016]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

design element - motifs - floral or foliage?

Scene Description: very eroded

Image Source: digital photograph taken by David Ross [www.britainexpress.com/photos.htm?attraction=4937] [accessed 15 December 2016]

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design element - motifs - panel - 8

Scene Description: with unidentified motifs inside the panels

Image Source: digital photograph taken by David Ross [www.britainexpress.com/photos.htm?attraction=4937] [accessed 15 December 2016]

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design element - patterns - unidentified

Scene Description: much damaged now

Image Source: digital photograph taken by David Ross [www.britainexpress.com/photos.htm?attraction=4937] [accessed 15 December 2016]

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human figure - unidentified - 12

Scene Description: two on each of six sides of the basin; very eroded -- the extreme right side is not divided and has an unidentified motif that occupies the whole side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 July 2000 by BSI

view of base

Scene Description: the figures and -probably- lions are all gone; only the shelf-like stands can be discerned now; very eroded and damaged

Image Source: digital photograph taken by David Ross [www.britainexpress.com/photos.htm?attraction=4937] [accessed 15 December 2016]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 July 2012 by John Myers [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3055746] [accessed 15 December 2016]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Peter and St. Paul, Lavenham. A truly magnificent parish church built on the proceeds of the medieval wool trade by the pious burghers of this East Anglian village."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 April 2007 by John Myers [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/513638] [accessed 15 December 2016]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2013 by David Dixon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3592053] [accessed 15 December 2016]

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view of church interior - north chantry

Scene Description: beatiful Flamboyant Gothic screens forming the 1523 chantry of the younger Thomas Spryng, now dedicated to St. Blaise and St. Catherine, in the north aisle, towards the east end

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 July 2000 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 July 2000 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: the font by the War Memorial, at the west end of the south aisle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2013 by David Dixon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3592080] [accessed 15 December 2016]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 01888LAV

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul

Church Location: Potland Lane, Lavenham, Suffolk CO10 9QT

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located on the B1071, off (W) the A1141, WNW of Ipswich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich

Historical Region: Hundred of Babergh [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle [formerly in a N chapel]

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Early Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David Ross [www.britainexpress.com] for his photograph of this font

Church Notes: "Wool" / "Cloth" church with some of the best parclose screens in the country [in Simon Jenkins' opinion]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for Lavenham in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL9149/lavenham/] [accessed 15 December 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Neale (1825) writes: "The font, placed against the first pillar, on the north side of the nave, is of an octagonal form, the cover is apparently of the age of Henry VII. [reg. 1491-1547] opening with doors in from like a closet." Listed in Paley (1844) as a hexagonal font. Parker (1855) writes: "The font stands in the north chapel; it has sustained considerable damage, but enough remains to shew that it must have been a work of great merit; it is a panelled octagon, with statues around both bowl and pedestal; the base has been destroyed, and the cover is modern." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. On-site notes: octagonal basin with double chamfer underbowl; six sides of the basin are divided into two rectangular frames, each containing a figure [no identification available]; the other two sides, at opposite sides of the basin, are not divided; one has a large floral motif, another an unidentified subject; the two chamfered areas of the underbowl are ornamented and there were probably lions at the corners of the stem of the base sides and figures on the sides themselves, all of them on moulded stands, though the whole is badly damaged. The plinth appears modern. The font may predate the present building, which was started in the late-15th century.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.106605, 0.791698

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 6′ 23.78″ N, 0° 47′ 30.11″ E

UTM: 31U 348768 5775196

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: two?

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted) chalice-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

Notes on Measurements: [No measurements taken]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 16th-century?

Material: wood,

Notes: rim-buffet type [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Neale, John Preston, Views of the most interesting collegiate and parochial churches in Great Briatin; including screens, fonts, monuments, &c. […] with historical and architectural descriptions [vol. II], London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, and Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825

Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844

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