Kersey No. 2
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Results: 22 records
B01: angel - holding shield - emblem - cross
Scene Description: one of the four angels on the octagonal basin; emblem of St. George?
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B02: angel - holding book
Scene Description: one of the four angels on the octagonal basin
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B03: angel - holding object
Scene Description: scroll?
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B04: angel - praying
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B05: design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal - in a circle
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B06: design element - patterns - floral - quatrefoil - in a circle
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B07: design element - patterns - floral - quatrefoil - in a circle
Scene Description: very damaged
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2009 by Janice Tostevindigital photograph taken 20 July 2009 by Janice Tostevin
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B08: blank
![the panel was never carved [cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1090728012_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the panel was never carved [cf. Font notes]
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BU01: human figure - male - head - bearded
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BU02: human figure - head
Scene Description: disfigured
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BU03: human figure - grotesque or fantastic - head
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BU04: human figure - male - head
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BU05: human figure - grotesque or fantastic - head
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BU06: human figure - male - bearded - wearing hat
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BU07: human figure - male - bearded
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BU08: human figure - male - head - bearded
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BU09: design element - motifs - moulding
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UB01: design element - patterns - tracery - quatrefoiled
Scene Description: on two of the sides of the stem
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UB02: design element - patterns - tracery - quatrefoiled - floral inserts
Scene Description: on two of the sides of the base
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UB03: design element - patterns - tracery - quatrefoiled - floral inserts
Scene Description: on the front side
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UB04: blank
Scene Description: on the right side of the base
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view of font and cover
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 04797KER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Late Decorated? / Early Perpendicular?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Kersey, Suffolk, IP7 6EE
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Just off the A1071, just N of Hadleigh
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Font Notes:
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Noted in Parker (1855): "Font, D[ecorated]; an octagon, with angels and tracery in the panels of the bowl." Described in Hutton (1957) simply as a fine restored font of the Decorated period. Angels holding objects (charged shield, book, etc.) alternate on the sides with complex quatrefoil patterns; the undebowl chamfer has heads (?) at the angles and graded moulding on the sides; the octagonal stem has a variety of low-relief rose-in-a-quatrefoil, floral and foliage interlace, etc., but one of the sides, both on the basin and on the base, is blank, unfinished, probably intended to go against the wall or a pillar [cf. Index entry for Kersey no. 1 for the remains of an earlier font listed also for this church]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janice Tostevin for her photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 357344 5769483
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.057558, 0.919211
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 3′ 27.21″ N, 0° 55′ 9.16″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: a modenrendering of the vertical-rib Jacobean model
REFERENCES
- Hutton, Graham, English Parish Churches, London: Thames & Hudson, 1976, p. 63
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]