Gisleham
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B03: symbol - shield - in an Ogee frame - coat of arms - East Anglia
Scene Description: with three crowns as field
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view of font
Scene Description: note the damage to the upper basin rim and side, probably caused by old cover staples
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human figure - head - 8
Scene Description: Eight such heads, alternating male and female, at the angles of the upper level of the underbowl chamfer
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design element - motifs - fruit
Scene Description: in the panels of the upper level of the underbowl chamfer, between the heads
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animal - 8
Scene Description: in the panels of the upper level of the underbowl chamfer, with the fruit
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design element - motifs - floral - square flower - 8
Scene Description: one on each side of the lower level of the underbowl chamfer
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human figure - grotesque or fantastic - head - in a quatrefoil - 4
Scene Description: one with protruding tongue, another perhaps a Green Man, etc.
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symbol - shield - blank - in an Ogee frame - 3
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view of church exterior - west tower
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view of church exterior - south view
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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
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view of church exterior - south portal - detail
Scene Description: shileds charged with religious emblems
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view of church exterior - south portal - detail
Scene Description: centre niche with angels at the sides
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view of church interior - window
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animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant - 4
Scene Description: One on each side of the square stem of the base
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design element - architectural - buttress - 4
Scene Description: on the sides of the stem, alternating with the sedente lions
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 03420GIS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2000-07-30
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity
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.
Church Address: 5 Church Road, Gisleham, Suffolk NR33 8DS
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: damaged font (the present font: the upper rim and side) -- disappeared fonts? (two, from two Domesday-time churches here)
Font Notes:
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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.
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
UTM: 31U 411446 5810498
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.4375, 1.697307
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 26′ 15″ N, 1° 41′ 50.3″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone?
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
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, p. 67
- 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, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=50980] [accessed 6 February 2007]
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]
- 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, vol. 1: 248