Mendlesham No. 1
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
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Results: 4 records
BU01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: detail of a digtal photograph by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/mendlesham.htm] [accessed 19 February 2007]
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view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digtal photograph by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/mendlesham.htm] [accessed 19 February 2007]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digtal photograph by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/mendlesham.htm] [accessed 19 February 2007]
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view of font canopy, baldachin - canopy
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: detail of a digtal photograph by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/mendlesham.htm] [accessed 19 February 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 04461MEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: 13thC church; much modified since; retored 19thC
Church Address: Church Rd, Mendlesham, Stowmarket IP14 5SF, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1449 766359
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A140, about 20 km E of Bury St Edmunds, 25 km NNW of Ipswich
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 13thC church here)
Font Notes:
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Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports: "the pulpit, reading desk, and cover of the font, are enriched with elaborate carvings." Betjeman (1958) notes: "17th-century woodwork: pulpit, reading desk and font cover all made by John Turner of Mendlesham in 1630." Jenkins (1999) mentions "the unforgettable the font cover", made by a local carver, John Turner, who also did the pulpit, in 1630; he describes it as "a confection of pediments and obelisks on columns, a classical answer to Ufford's Gothic wedding cake." Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/mendlesham.htm] [accessed 19 February 2007], however, notes: "The font cover [...] was made locally, but contains Renaissance imagery rarely seen in this country; it would be quite at home at St Eustache in Paris." The font itself, by contrast, is chiefly a plain octagonal specimen, the only decoration visible being a graded chamfer. [cf Index entry for Mendlesham No. 2 for a beautiful late font now used as holy-water stoup in the porch].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Suffolk Churches, for the photographs of font and church.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 369140 5790545
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.249722, 1.083056
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 14′ 59″ N, 1° 4′ 59″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1630
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958, p. 351
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982, p. 87 and pl. 81
- Jenkins, Simon, England's Thousand Best Churches, London and New York: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1999 [2000 rev. printing], p. 660
- Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
- 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=51143] [accessed 19 February 2007]