Letheringham

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B01: animal - mammal - lion - passant - 4

Scene Description: facing right

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Image Source: engraving by J. Basire in Gough (1792)

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B02: angel - holding shield - coat of arms - cross - 4

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BU01: angel - cherub - 8

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BU02: design element - motifs - floral - square flower - 8

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LB01: animal - mammal - lion and/or dog

Scene Description: perhaps lions, dog and wolf? [cf. Font notes]

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Image Source: engraving by J. Basire in Gough (1792)

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LB02: design element - architectural - buttress - 4

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03471LET
Church/Chapel: Priory Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Letheringham, Woodbridge IP13 7QY, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1728 685308
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off the B7018, about 12 km N of Woodbridge
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Cognate Fonts: the font at Charsfield, also in Suffolk [cf. Norwich no. 4 font]
Church Notes: 12thC priory church; dissolved 1537; much modified since
Noted, with an engraving by J. Basire, in Gough (1792), as similar to the font at Charsfield, "and on the shaft a dog, wolf, and lions supporting it." The font is also of a similar design to the one in Norwich St. John's [cf. Index entry for Norwich No. 4]: octagonal basin with deeply carved panels showing alternatively lions and angels holding charged shields; the underbowl chamfer has two levels: the upper has cherubs at the angles while the lower is decorated with square flowers; octagonal stem with sedente animals [cf. supra] and buttresses; plain octagonal lower base and plinth. [NB: Paley gives "Leveringham" as one of the cognate fonts of the one at Norwich St John's [cf. Index entry for Norwich no. 4]; however, Crockford's Clerical Directory does not list the name of this town, nor did we find it in the available geographical sources -- there is a "Letheringham" in Suffolk, but we have not been able to ascertain that this font is the one from Letheringham St. Mary's]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 10′ 44″ N, 1° 18′ 59″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; r["References"]