Peasenhall / Pesehala / Pesehalla / Pesehealle / Pesenhala

Results: 17 records

design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches

notice how the patternn of intersecting arches on the right changes on the left to pointed arch-heads and then seemingly to chevrons

Scene Description: notice how the patternn of intersecting arches on the right changes on the left to pointed arch-heads and then seemingly to chevrons

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

design element - architectural - arch-head - pointed

the pattern of rather irregular pointed arch-heads ends at the left end, where the pattern of intersecting round arches start -- the samage visible on the upper rim, right side, still shows the rust colour of the metal staple that served as anchoring for an old font

Scene Description: the pattern of rather irregular pointed arch-heads ends at the left end, where the pattern of intersecting round arches start -- the samage visible on the upper rim, right side, still shows the rust colour of the metal staple that served as anchoring for an old font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: showing the metal lining

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - north porch

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - north porch - east side - detail

Scene Description: an impressive dragon

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - north porch - east side - detail

Scene Description: a sejant-gardant lion on the left [east] side of the north porch; there is another similar on the right [west] side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - north porch - west side - detail

Scene Description: Green Man? Woodwoose?

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - northeast view

Source caption: ""Peasenhall Church, Suffolk, North East," etching, by the British printmaker Henry Davy. 181 mm x 257 mm. Courtesy of the British Museum, London."

Scene Description: Source caption: ""Peasenhall Church, Suffolk, North East," etching, by the British printmaker Henry Davy. 181 mm x 257 mm. Courtesy of the British Museum, London."

Image Source: digital image of an 1845 etching by Henry Davy in British Museum [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peasenhall_Church_Suffolk_by_Henry_Davy_1845.jpg] [accessed 24 December 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-PD-Mark

view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 May 2009 by Adrian Cable [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1316488] [accessed 24 December 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 May 2009 by Adrian Cable [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1316486] [accessed 24 December 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

view of church exterior - west tower - north view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 May 2009 by Adrian Cable [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1316462] [accessed 24 December 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

view of font - east side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

view of font - east side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

view of font - southwest side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 2000 by BSI

view of font and cover in context - north side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 May 2009 by Adrian Cable [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1316461] [accessed 24 December 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

view of font and cover in context - northeast side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 May 2009 by Adrian Cable [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1316473] [accessed 24 December 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

INFORMATION

FontID: 03395PEA

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael

Church Location: Church Lane, Peasenhall, Saxmundham IP17 2HL , UK

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off the A1120 [aka Baddingham Rd], just W of Yaxford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Edmundsbury & Ipswich

Historical Region: Hundred of Blything

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

Century and Period: 12th century [composite font?], Medieval [composite]

Church Notes: A dragon and a Green Man (Woowoose?) occupy the top corner spandrels of the main [north] portal of the present 15thC church.

Font Notes: Click to view

There are five entries por Peasenhall in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM3569/peasenhall/] [accessed 24 December 2017]; one of them, in the tenancy of Roger Bigot, reports "2 churches. 0.2 church lands" in it. Parker (1855) reports a plain octagonal font here. Listed in Cautley (1982) as a baptismal font of the 12th century. [NB: C.S. Drake recommended that we examine this unusual font: the basin appears to be upside down; the upper rim of the basin has sixteen sides and is supported by a broad central column and four corner shafts not fully detached, like some of the Tournai-style of fonts found in France. The unusual basin is actually square with bulging, rounded corners, and has an irregular arcade on its lower side. The basin could have been a different re-cut to serve as part of the font, for it does not seem to match the base.] Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008) with the following well-founded remarks: "Cautley dates the font to the late 12thc., but I know of no other font in Suffolk that combines a three-stage transposition in plan from square with lobes, through octagonal to 16-sided. The arcaded decoration suggests the later 12thc., but it is the only feature that does. The base and capital profiles, with their deep hollow mouldings, belong more to the 13thc. than the 12thc. and the curious hemispheres to neither. It may be the result of more than one phase of work." The intersecting arcade motif visible on the north and east sides does not continue through the other two sides, but stops half-way, and it turns instead into a double scotia; even on the two sides where the arcade is visible it is not continuous, showing at parts that it has been altered, perhaps after re-cutting the basin.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.27057, 1.45041

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 16′ 14.05″ N, 1° 27′ 1.48″ E

UTM: 31U 394266 5792263

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Font Shape: square (mounted) [sixteen-sided rim]

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square [sixteen sided rim]

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

Rim Thickness: 6-9 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 54 cm / 56 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 72 cm (at the upper rim)

Basin Depth: 25 cm

Basin Total Height: 32 cm / 38 cm*

Height of Base: 66 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 98 cm / 99 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 72 x 72.5 cm*

Notes on Measurements: BSI -- * [measurements a/p the CRSBI entry]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: pill-box of octagonal shape and small turned (?) finial; appears modern

REFERENCES

Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2009-10-21 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

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