Ashby / Ashby in Lothingland / Askeby / Haskeby

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches

Scene Description: on the west side of the basin

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken by Evelyn Simak 27 September 2009 [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1509677] [accessed 6 March 2012]

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design element - motifs - semicircle (upper row inverted over the lower row)

Scene Description: on the east side of the basin

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 2 May 2010 by Richie Wisbey [www.flickr.com/photos/wisbey/4573946699/?q=ashby suffolk] [accessed 6 March 2012]

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view of basin - south side - detail

Image Source: detail of a colour photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-sf-ashby.html] [accessed 6 March 2012]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2009 by Les Hutchings [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tower_in_Ashby,_England.jpg] [accessed 6 March 2012]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the west side of the old font in the foreground

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Evelyn Simak 27 September 2009 [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1509677] [accessed 6 March 2012]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the old font is visible at the west end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2010 by Richie Wisbey [www.flickr.com/photos/wisbey/4573946205/?q=ashby suffolk] [accessed 6 March 2012]

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view of font

Scene Description: the foliated motif is evident on the south (left) side of the basin

Image Source: B&W photograph in Bond (1908)

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view of font - east side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2010 by Richie Wisbey [www.flickr.com/photos/wisbey/4573946699/?q=ashby suffolk] [accessed 6 March 2012]

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view of font - east side

Image Source: colour photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-sf-ashby.html] [accessed 6 March 2012]

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view of font - north side

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view of font - south side

Scene Description: although very eroded there appears to be a foliated motif carved on this side

Image Source: colour photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-sf-ashby.html] [accessed 6 March 2012]

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view of font - southwest side

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view of font - west side

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the east side of the font; in front (east) of the tower arch

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Evelyn Simak 27 September 2009 [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1509677] [accessed 6 March 2012]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05079ASH

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Ashby, Suffolk NR32 5QH, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off the B1074, near Herringfleet and Lowestoft, by the Norfolk border [NB: not to be confused with Ashby St. Mary's, 12 km from Norwich, in Norfolk]

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Lothingland

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 12th century, Norman

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Richard (Richie) Wisbey for his photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Suckling (1846-1848): notes: "a low, square, mutilated font of Norman character, apparently of Purbeck marble, sustained on a single shaft" [cf. infra]. Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a 13th-century square basin made of Purbeck marble mounted on a single central shaft and four corner colonnettes [NB: in this case, the corner shafts are actually wooden]. Bond (ibid.) describes the decoration on it simply as "molded ornament". Listed in Cautley (1982) as a baptismal font of the 12th century. Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008): "A shallow, square Purbeck bowl standing on the usual thick central shaft, but on wooden balusters at the angles. These all stand on the usual cusped Purbeck base, and that on a modern chamfered plinth and a step. The bowl is generally eroded but there are signs of decoration on all four faces" [some parts of the CRSBI description adjusted]: two rows of large semi-circles or scallops (one row reversed over the other) appear on the east face; the north and west sides have a blind arcade of round arches; the south side, again, much worn, appears to have a foliated motif carved on it, of which only a faint trace is visible towards the right side of the panel. "There is damage to the rim at the SW and NE corners, and at the E and W. There is a rim repair at the W, and a crack up the middle of the east face, repaired with a large metal staple. The bowl is unlined." The WEB site "Lothingland on the Internet", pt. 4, dates the wooden legs to the 15th century and reports "traces of holes at opposite corners of the bowl" hinting to the previous existence of a "hinged cover with padlock". Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble, :the panels are almost worn away and the subsidiary shafts are bulbous wooden ones" [gives Pevsner's Suffolk 1961 as source].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.532288, 1.668989

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 31′ 56.24″ N, 1° 40′ 8.36″ E

UTM: 31U 409715 5821076

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Basin Total Height: 25-28 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 73 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 70 x 70

Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2008)

LID INFORMATION

Notes: evidence of hinges on the upper surface of the basin

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2012-03-06 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975

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