Saxmundham / Samundeham / Saxmondeham
Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2011
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Results: 26 records
B01: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - the instruments of the Passion
Scene Description: on the east side of the basin
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B02: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant
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B03: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - See of Ely or East Anglia (three crowns)
Scene Description: [cf. also the font at Corton, Suffolk[
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B04: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant
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B05: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - Trinity
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B06: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant
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B07: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - England
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B08: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant
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B09: design element - motifs - floral - square flower
Scene Description: several; on the frames of the seated lion panels
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BU01: angel - cherub
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BU02: angel - cherub
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BU03: angel - cherub
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BU04: angel - cherub
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BU05: angel - cherub
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BU06: angel - cherub
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BU07: angel - cherub
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BU08: angel - cherub
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BU09: design element - motifs - floral - square flower - 8
![on the lower level of the basin underbowl; re-carved [c f. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1110504030_compressed.png)
Scene Description: on the lower level of the basin underbowl; re-carved [c f. FontNotes]
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LB01: animal - mammal - lion - sejant - 2
Scene Description: two, on alternated sides from the woodwooses; these, too, are re-carvings
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LB02: design element - architectural - buttress - 4
Scene Description: at each angle of the pedestal base; these, too, are re-carvings
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LBF01: human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose - with club
Scene Description: these, too, are re-carvings
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LBF01: human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose - with club
Scene Description: these, too, are re-carvings
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2005 by Janice Tostevin
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LID01: human figure - standing - Christ?
Scene Description: wearing a cruciferous nimbus
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Bond (1908)
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view of font - east side
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Bond (1908)
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott in 2006 [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/saxmundham.html]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 04033SAX
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century? [re-cut], Perpendicular [altered?]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: Similar, though not identical, to the font at Oulton
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Address: 35 Church Hill, Saxmundham IP17 1ES, UK -- Tel.: +44 1728 452423
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just E of the A12, 30 km NE of Ipswich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Pomesglate
Additional Comments: altered font: re-cut font? / composite font? (the present font) -- disappeared fonts? (the ones from the three Domesday-time churches here [cf. FontNotes])
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for Saxmundham [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM3862/saxmundham/] [accessed 14 December 2020]; of the three one entry reports "1 church. 0.12 church lands" in it; another entry reports "2 churches. 0.2 church lands" in it, while the third does not include either church or church lands in it. Parker (1855) notes a basin with "the evangelistic emblems" mounted on a modern pedestal base. Described and illustrated in Bond (1908). Described and illustrated in Knott (2006): "the font, one of the best Suffolk examples of the 15th century East Anglian style, is thoroughly recut. There are aggressive little wild men around the base, and one of the shields features the instruments of the passion." Octagonal mounted font of the 15th century in the Perpendicular style; the octagonal basin has four angel demi-figures holding charged shields on four sides of the basin (emblems of the Instruments of the Passion, the Trinity, England and Diocese of Ely); the other four sides have seated lions in a gardant pose inside frames decorated with little rosettes; the corners of the underbowl chamfer have cherubs, their wings covering the space in between; the square pedestal base has sedente lions at every-other side alternating with standing "woodwooses" or wild men wielding clubs. The font does look too sharp for its age, but it is not clear whether parts of it are replacements or, as Knott suggests, thorough re-cuts. The lid is octagonal and low-domed with a haloed [cruciferous nimbus] figure finial [Christ?].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janice Tostevin, and to Simon Knott of Suffolk Churches, for their photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 396633 5786030
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 1.4956, 1.4956
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 12′ 46.4″ N, 1° 29′ 44″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Apparatus: no
Notes: Bond (1908) describes the cover as one of a "common late type".
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 247, 249, 255, 257, 291 and ill. on p. 248
- Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]