Combs / Combas
Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2012
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Results: 14 records
B01: design element - motifs - floral - rose - in a diamond or lozenge
Scene Description: on some sides of the basin
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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B02: design element - motifs - floral - rose - 4
Scene Description: two-up two-down on some sides of the basin
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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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
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B04: design element - motifs - floral - rose - 4
Scene Description: two-up two-down on some sides of the basin
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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B05: design element - motifs - floral - rose
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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B06: design element - motifs - floral - rose
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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UB01: design element - architectural - buttress - 8
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1120617011_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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UB02: design element - motifs - tracery - varied
Scene Description: [cf.Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 December 2005 by Janice Tostevin
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: close-up of one of the roses on the basin sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of basin and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrain S Pye, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2008 by Adrian S Pye [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2087212] [accessed 17 June 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05190COM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century (late?), Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: Earlier church recorded in Domesday; no info on it -- 15th-century stained-glass window depicts baptismal scene with font [cf. FontNotes]
Church Address: Church Road, Combs, Suffolk, IP14 2RA
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 3 kms S of Stowmarket
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich [formerly in the diocese of Norwich]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the church existing here ca.1086) -- [Knott's images are now download-disabled in Flickr]
Font Notes:
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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]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janice Tostevin for her photographs of this font
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, p. 67
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]