Gisleham

Results: 16 records

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B03: symbol - shield - in an Ogee frame - coat of arms - East Anglia

Scene Description: with three crowns as field

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 30 July 2000 by BSI

animal - 8

Scene Description: in the panels of the upper level of the underbowl chamfer, with the fruit

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 30 July 2000 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant - 4

Scene Description: One on each side of the square stem of the base

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 30 July 2000 by BSI

design element - architectural - buttress - 4

Scene Description: on the sides of the stem, alternating with the sedente lions

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 30 July 2000 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral - square flower - 8

Scene Description: one on each side of the lower level of the underbowl chamfer

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 30 July 2000 by BSI

design element - motifs - fruit

Scene Description: in the panels of the upper level of the underbowl chamfer, between the heads

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 30 July 2000 by BSI

human figure - grotesque or fantastic - head - in a quatrefoil - 4

Scene Description: one with protruding tongue, another perhaps a Green Man, etc.

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 30 July 2000 by BSI

human figure - head - 8

Scene Description: Eight such heads, alternating male and female, at the angles of the upper level of the underbowl chamfer

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 30 July 2000 by BSI

symbol - shield - blank - in an Ogee frame - 3

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 30 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Scene Description: centre niche with angels at the sides

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 30 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Scene Description: shileds charged with religious emblems

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 30 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Scene Description: at the centre, the emblem of the Trinity; to the right, the Instruments of the Passion

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 30 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 30 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - west tower

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 30 July 2000 by BSI

view of church interior - window

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 30 July 2000 by BSI

view of font

Scene Description: note the damage to the upper basin rim and side, probably caused by old cover staples

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 30 July 2000 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 03420GIS

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity

Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity

Church Location: 5 Church Road, Gisleham, Suffolk NR33 8DS

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 7 km SSW of Lowestoft, between Carlton Colville and Kessingland.

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Lothing [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Mutford

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

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Church Notes: round-tower church -- The Facade of the church portal has shields with different motifs, including the emblem of the Instruments of the Passion.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for Gisleham in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TM5188/gisleham/] [accessed 28 June 2016], one of church mentions two churches and 0.25 church lands in it. Suckling (1846-1848) writes: "octagonal font of more than average merit". In Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 as "a curiously sculptured font". Parker (1855) describes it as "good P[erpendicular". On-site notes: 15th-century (?) Perpendicular octagonal mounted font on a square base; the plinth is modern; the basin sides have grotesque heads/faces over quatrefoil background alternating with shields -all blank except one- on multi-lobed background; the underbowl has alternate male-female faces entwined in foliage; the chamfer of the base -or second register of the underbowl- has a Tudor rose on each of the eight panels; each of the four angles of the stem of the base have a protruding seated lion, the sides with very slender buttresses.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.4375, 1.697307

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 26′ 15″ N, 1° 41′ 50.3″ E

UTM: 31U 411446 5810498

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone?

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead lining; the central drained is plugged

Rim Thickness: 11 cm (17 cm at the corners)

Diameter (inside rim): 53 cm

Basin Depth: 30 cm

Height of Basin Side: 35 cm

Basin Total Height: 55 cm

Height of Base: 43 cm

Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: 30 x 35 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 98 cm

Font Height (with Plinth): 124 cm (modern plinth)

Trapezoidal Basin: 75 x 81 cm (min.&max. diagonals of the octagon)

Notes on Measurements: BSI

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

REFERENCES

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

Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831

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

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