Stonham Parva / Little Stonham
Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2012
Standing permission
Results: 27 records
B01: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist
![or, St. Mary and St. Mary Magdalene? [cf. FontNotes] -- on the west side of the basin](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1120618021_compressed.png)
Scene Description: or, St. Mary and St. Mary Magdalene? [cf. FontNotes] -- on the west side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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B02: symbol - Christ - the instruments of the Passion - crown of thorns, pierced heart, etc.
![crosed by a small spear and a lance [cf. FontNotes]; on the southwest side of the basin](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1120618022_compressed.png)
Scene Description: crosed by a small spear and a lance [cf. FontNotes]; on the southwest side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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B03: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - blank
Scene Description: on the south side of the basin
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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B04: Virgin Mary - Marian symbol (crowned)
![a later re-carving? [cf. FontNotes] -- on the southeast side of the basin](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1120618024_compressed.png)
Scene Description: a later re-carving? [cf. FontNotes] -- on the southeast side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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B05: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - unidentified
Scene Description: on the east side of the basin; unlike the previous shield, this one had an emblem on it, but it has been crudely hacked off and is no longer identifiable
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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B06: design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose - in a cusped or radiated panel
Scene Description: on the northeast side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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B07: coat of arms - crowned
Scene Description: on the north side of the basin; this panel has been almost entirely cut off, except the top of the crown above, and a new emblem shallowly re-carved on the new surface; the remaining top of the crown has two crosses on it and appears to have served as the model for the Marian crown on the other side
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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B08: angel - demi-figure - holding heart
Scene Description: to the left of the Crucifixion, on the northwest side of the basin
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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B09: design element - patterns - sawtooth
Scene Description: several of the scenes or motifs on the basin panels are framed in a saw-tooth pattern
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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BU01: angel - demi-figure - 8
Scene Description: of the 'big-hair' type common in some East Anglisn fonts; some wear dressy tops; others appear to wear partial armour; all stand with their hands over the lower moulding, their hands touching, as spectators watching a show from a balcony
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Austin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 October 2010 by pete-astn [www.flickr.com/photos/53366513@N00/5066084000/]
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BU02: angel - demi-figure
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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BU03: angel - demi-figure
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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BU04: angel - demi-figure
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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BU05: angel - demi-figure
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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BU05: animal - mammal - lion - sejant
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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BU06: angel - demi-figure
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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BU06: animal - mammal - lion - sejant
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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BU07: angel - demi-figure
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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BU08: angel - demi-figure
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UB01: design element - architectural - buttress - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Austin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 October 2010 by pete-astn [www.flickr.com/photos/53366513@N00/5066084000/]
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UB02: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: several, around the lower side of the stem
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Austin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 October 2010 by pete-astn [www.flickr.com/photos/53366513@N00/5066084000/]
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UB03: animal - mammal - lion - sejant
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Austin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 October 2010 by pete-astn [www.flickr.com/photos/53366513@N00/5066084000/]
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UB04: animal - mammal - lion - sejant
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/2393036230/]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font partially visible at the back (west), right (north) side, beneath the gallery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/2393036230/]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Austin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 October 2010 by pete-astn [www.flickr.com/photos/53366513@N00/5066084000/]
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view of font - south and southeast sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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INFORMATION
FontID: 02592STO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin [redundant]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church Ln, Stonham Parva, Stowmarket, Suffolk, IP14 5JL, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off the A140 (Ipswich to Norwich Rd.), 5 km E of Stowmarket, 18 km N of Ipswich; the church is just N of the Magpie Inn
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of [formerly in the diocese of Norwich]
Historical Region: Hundred of Bosmere
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, by the stairs to the gallery/choir
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century[partly re-carved?], Perpendicular [altered?]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font
Cognate Fonts: Many of the octagonal East-Anglian fonts
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janice Tostevin, to Peter Austin [aka pete-astn], and to Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk] for their photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: St. Mary, Stonham Parva, is usually open; keyholder listed. The church is now redundant and in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
Font Notes:
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This font is not mentioned in Parker (1855). Described in Knott (2008): "The font is rather unusual; lions and buttresses support the stem, with angels under the bowl in the best East Anglian tradition - although this font is really in excellent condition. The emblems carved in the 8 panels include a crowned Marian symbol, a crucifixion with Christ flanked by Mary and St John (although Cautley has Mary and Mary Magdalene), instruments of the Passion about a heart, and a Tudor rose. There is also another crowned Marian M, but this appears to have been recut more recently. The Crucifixion is probably the finest and the most interesting of the eight panels, but is virtually impossible to photograph because of the proximity of the 18th century screen by the stairs to the gallery [...] It is probably from the same workshop as that at nearby Earl Stonham."
As indicated above one of the panels appear to have been re-carved; a second one has had most of its surface cut off, leaving only the top of the crown with two crosses; on the new space another emblem has been shallowly carved; the upper rim of the Crucifixion panel appears to have been broken and repaired. The demi-figure angels on the underbowl are of 'big hair' type (a rendering typical of some East Anglian font, in which the air appears to flow out); each of the angels wears individualised clothing, some of them armour; their faces have all been smashed. The lions of the base have been vandalised as well, but to a lesser extent. Interestingly, the damage to this font does not appear to follow the usual logic of iconoclastic vandalising; whereas the Crucifixion scene and some the symbols that would have been most offensive to iconoclasts seem to have survived, other parts of the font, like the lions of the base, that usually survive unscathed the wrath of the zealots, are here damaged.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.1991, 1.0885
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 11′ 56.76″ N, 1° 5′ 18.6″ E
UTM: 31U 369363 5784905
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: initials
Inscription Location: on two of the basin sides
Inscription Text: [two crowned Ms]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.