Wissett
Results: 24 records
B01: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - symbol - eagle
Scene Description: Order of the images is probably incorrect
B02: symbol - shield
B03: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Luke - symbol - winged bull
B04: symbol - shield
B05: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion
B06: symbol - shield
B07: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew - symbol - angel
B08: symbol - shield
BU01: angel
BU02: angel
BU03: angel
BU04: angel
BU05: angel
BU06: angel
BU07: angel
BU08: angel
LB02: human figure - male - Green Man or woodwoose
LB04: human figure - male - Green Man or woodwoose
LB06: human figure - male - Green Man or woodwoose
LB08: human figure - male - Green Man or woodwoose
LBF01: animal - mammal - lion
LBF03: animal - mammal - lion
LBF05: animal - mammal - lion
LBF07: animal - mammal - lion
INFORMATION
FontID: 02652WIS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Lodge Ln, Wissett, Halesworth IP19 0JG, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: St Andrew's, Wissett, is on the main Halesworth to Flixton road, about 2 miles outside Halesworth (S. Knott)
Font Location in Church: Inside the the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes:
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Described in Cox & Harvey (1907: 219) as one of a group of East Anglian baptismal fonts in which "is the accurrence of alternate erect lions and wild hairy men (termed 'woodhouses') round the octagon shaft of the base". C&H mention Chediston, Halesworth, Middleton, Theberton and Wissett, all in the Hundred of Blything. This same source identifies the Evangelists' symbols alternating with angels around the sides of the basin. "Wonderful font. Its contents are in the East Anglian tradition, but these are the liveliest lions and woodwooses in Suffolk. The angels beneath the bowl soar, and St Mark's bull looks ready to jump out and fly away. Traces of paint survive." (Knott, 1999). The octagonal mounted font has the four symbols of the Evangelists, and a shield on the alternate basin sides; the underbowl has the typical East Anglian angels at the corners; the upper part of the base has eight floral (?) motifs; under those, rampant lions at the corners of the base and woodwoses in between them; the thin plinth is square (description based on photograph by Aidan Semmens in Knott, 1999)
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.36055, 1.473418
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 21′ 37.98″ N, 1° 28′ 24.31″ E
UTM: 31U 396046 5802238
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
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]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.