Chediston / Cedestan / Cheddeston / Cheston / Sedestane

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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol - 4

Scene Description: one on each panel of the basin alternating with angels -- visible here are John's eagle, on the left, and Mark's lion, on the right

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken in 2007 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/chediston.htm] [accessed 13 November 2017]

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angel - cherub - 8

Scene Description: at the angles of the upper basin underbowl

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken in 2007 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/chediston.htm] [accessed 13 November 2017]

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angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - 4

Scene Description: an angel on each panel of the basin, holding a shield with an emblem [one of them, noted in Parker (1855) and visible here, is the emblem of the Trinity] alternating with the Evangelists' symbols

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken in 2007 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/chediston.htm] [accessed 13 November 2017]

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animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant - 4

Scene Description: around the shaft, alternating with woodwooses

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design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose - 8

Scene Description: on the sides of the second [lower] underbowl level

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human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose - 4

Scene Description: alternating with lions on the sides of the stem

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view of church exterior - north view

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: with the old font at the far [west] end

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: all cheddiston are Sinmon's digital photograph taken in 2007 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/chediston.htm] [accessed 13 November 2017] -- EXCEPT 2 FONTS BY CABLE: digital photograph taken 20 June 2014 by Adrian Cable [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4054430 and 4054432

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrian Cable, 2014

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 20 June 2014 by Adrian Cable [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4054430] [accessed 13 November 2017]

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view of font and cover in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrian Cable, 2014

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 20 June 2014 by Adrian Cable [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4054432] [accessed 13 November 2017]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05187CHE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Chediston, Halesworth, Suffolk, IP19 0AU, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off the B1123, 3 kms W of Halesworth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Blything
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font / Evangelists' font
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/chediston.htm] for his photographs of this church and font
There are five entries for Chediston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TM3577/chediston/] [accessed 13 November 2017], one of which reports "0.8 churches. 0.13 church lands" in it. Font here noted in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848: "a font of Caen stone, curiously sculptured". Noted in Parker (1855) as a good Perpendicular font "with emblems of the Trinity". Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as one of a group of East Anglian baptismal fonts in which "is the accurrence of alternate erect lions and wild hairy men (termed 'woodhouses') round the octagon shaft of the base". C&H mention Chediston, Halesworth, Middleton, Theberton and Wissett, all in the Hundred of Blything. This same source identifies the Evangelists' symbols alternating with angels around the sides of the basin. Described and illustrated in Cautley (1982). Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/chediston.htm] [accessed 13 November 2017] writes: "The fine East Anglian font is in excellent condition, its lions and woodwoses standing proudly. It is very like the one across the valley at Wissett, and they were probably carved by the same hand."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.347215, 1.461947
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 20′ 49.97″ N, 1° 27′ 43.01″ E
UTM: 31U 395234 5800771

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Caen stone)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
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
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855