Heveningham / Cuelincham / Haveningham / Heueniggeham

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INFORMATION
FontID: 02559UBB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Location: Church Rd, Heveningham, Halesworth IP19 0EP, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off the B1117 Halesworth to Stradbroke road, just W of Heveningham Hall (S. Knott)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Blything -- formerly Norfolk
Font Location in Church: [disappeared? -- replaced by a Victorian font]
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Church Notes: St Margaret, Heveningham, is kept locked, but keyholder listed (S. Knott).
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Heveningham [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM3372/heveningham/] [accessed 25 April 2019] one of which reports "0.3 churches. 0.01 church lands" in it. Gough (1792) notes: "[the font at] Heveningham has angels and symbols of the Evangelists and on the shaft pillars and lions." [NB: is this an error in Gough? -- his description does not match those of Repton, Paley or Suckling [cf. infra], and he could not have been describing the Victorian font in 1792]. Illustrated with an engraving by J. Basire in Repton (1812), who notes the font as an specimen "from about the reign of King Edward the Second [1307+] to that of Richard the Second [1377+]". Noted in Paley (1844) as a font of the type that consists of "a simple octagonal block [...] placed immediately upon a plinth". Noted also in Suckling (1846-1848), who would have visited the church probably twenty years earlier than the publication of his book: "There is an octangular font of stone in good condition, but not of very elegant design, in the nave". Knott (1999) [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/heveningham.htm] informs that the medieval font which now stands near the newer, 19th-century font, by the former north door, was actually brought here from Ubbeston when that church fell redundant in the 1970s. The font illustrated in Repton matches the description in Paley; Repton would have seen the font at Heveningham before 1807, the date on Basire's engraving; the octagonal block has deeply-carved traceried arches supported on double columns and forming niches; inside the niches can be seen the remains of figural sculpture, including one which appears to contain a Crucifixion [NB: the source of the illustration is an engraving]. The font at Haveningham [sic] is described in Parker (1855) as "an octagon, with a panelled bowl". The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TM3333572583] notes: "Parish church. Medieval, restored 1847-66. [...] C15 carved octagonal font. Against the north nave wall is the C15 font from Ubbeston church." Aidan Semmens [www.sillysuffolk.co.uk], in his page on Heveningham, notes: "there are two fonts. The first one is Victorian -- the other, 400 years older, was brought from neighbouring Ubbeston in 1983 after that village's church was converted to a private home and the parished combined. Ubbeston infants are still baptised in the Ubbeston font." [NB: therefore the medieval of Heveningham seen and noted in Repton and Paley is no longer extant?] -- [cf. Index entry for Ubbeston for the other medieval font, originally from Ubbeston, and in Heveningham St. Margaret's since 1983]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.30215, 1.4208
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 18′ 7.74″ N, 1° 25′ 14.88″ E
UTM: 31U 392322 5795819
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; p. 198
Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
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
Repton, John Adey, "Specimens of Fonts, collected from different Churches, by John Adey Repton, Esq. F.A.S. In a Letter addressed to Craven Ord, Esq. F.R.S. and F.A.S.V.P., read 12th March, 1807", XVI, Archaeologia, 1812, pp. 335-337 and pl. XXXVII-XLV; p. 336 and pl. XLI fig. 1
Suckling, Alfred, The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk, with genealogical and architectural notices of its several towns and villages, London: John Weale [...], 1846-1848