Clare nr. Sudbury
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B01: symbol - shield - in a quatrefoil - pointed or cusped quatrefoil
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B02: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle - floral motifs
Scene Description: four rosettes at the inner angles of the quatrefoil [cf. Font notes]
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B03: symbol - shield - blank - in a cusped panel
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B04: design element - motifs - floral - square flower - in a quatrefoil - pointed quatrefoil
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B05: design element - motifs - floral - rose - in a quatrefoil - pointed quatrefoil
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B06: blank
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded
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BU02: angel - cherub - 8?
Scene Description: very worned now [cf. Font notes]
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design element - patterns - crenellated
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design element - patterns - tracery
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view of font
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Image Source: drawn and engraved by John Greig in 1810, in Storer (1807-1811)
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view of font and cover
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INFORMATION
FontID: 05189CLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located on the A1092, between Haverhill and Melford, 15 kms NW of Sudbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janice Tostevin for her photographs of this font
Church Notes: The abbey of Augustine friars was founded in the mid-13th century
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Storer (1807-1811) with an engraving by John Greig done in 1810: "The font is of stone, and evidently of the same age as the church" [NB: Storer does not assign a date to the church, which he describes as "an ancient and beautiful structure"]. Noted in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848: "an elegantly-designed font in the later English style" [i.e., Perpendicular]. Parker (1855) cites Rickman, a "very fine" Perpendicular font "with good panelling". The basin has a castellated upper rim; some sides have shields inscribed in cusped panels (one is quatrefoil, another is octafoil), others have pointed quatrefoils with inscribed floral motifs (rose, square flower), others yet are round quatrefoils with rosettes at the inside tips; one side is totally blank, not carved, which may suggest it was originally intended to go against a wall or pillar; the basin underbowl has graded moulding on the upper level and cherubs below; the octagonal stem has traceried panels; splayingl lower base and a two-step plinth, both plain. The wooden cover is flat and round, with metal decoration and ring handle; date unknown. There is evidence of damage and old repairs with insered stone. [NB: claim to have a female woodwose in the base?]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
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
Storer, James Sargant, The Antiquarian and Topographical cabinet; containing a series of elegant views of the most interesting objects of curiosity in Great Britain, London: Published for the proprietors by W. Clarke, 1807-1811