Combs / Combas

Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2012
Standing permission
Results: 14 records
B01: design element - motifs - floral - rose - in a diamond or lozenge
B02: design element - motifs - floral - rose - 4
B03: symbol - cross - saltire - crossed saltire or Union Jack
![a crossed-saltire design in the shape of the Union Jack [anachronistic definition since the latter dates only from 1606, but used here for descriptive purposes only]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1120617005_compressed.png)
Scene Description: a crossed-saltire design in the shape of the Union Jack [anachronistic definition since the latter dates only from 1606, but used here for descriptive purposes only]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B04: design element - motifs - floral - rose - 4
B05: design element - motifs - floral - rose
B06: design element - motifs - floral - rose
UB01: design element - architectural - buttress - 8
UB02: design element - motifs - tracery - varied
view of base
view of basin - detail
view of basin and cover
view of church exterior - southeast view
view of font and cover
INFORMATION
FontID: 05190COM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church Road, Combs, Suffolk, IP14 2RA
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 3 kms S of Stowmarket
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich [formerly in the diocese of Norwich]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century (late?), Decorated
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janice Tostevin for her photographs of this font
Church Notes: Earlier church recorded in Domesday; no info on it -- 15th-century stained-glass window depicts baptismal scene with font [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described in Parker (1855): "Font, D[ecorated]; an octagon, with very good panelling in bowl and pedestal." Noted and illustrated in Cautley (1982). Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with tapering sides decorated with large single roses alternating with sets of four smaller but equally shaped roses; raised on an octagonal pedestal base with buttresses at the angles and tracery windows on the panels. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle. [NB: a 16 August 1871 letter to the editor of The Antiquary (issue of Saturday, Sept. 9th, 1871: 118) describes a 15th-century stained-glass window (middle window of the south aisle); one of the scenes depicted is described: "A bishop holding in left hand pastoral staff blessing with right hand font filled with water. Woman behind him. Man on one side of the font; on other a second woman holding a nude child for Holy Baptism" -- the letter is signed W. H. Sewell and sent from the Yaxley Vicarage, Suffolk]
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 362338 5781857
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855