Rattlesden
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Results: 10 records
B01: design element - architectural - window - Gothic - 8 - tracery
Scene Description: each with a cinquefoil arch inside
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B02: design element - architectural - arcade - 8 arches - cinquefoil arches
Scene Description: each inside an Ogee window
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B03: design element - architectural - buttress - crocketed pinnacle - 8
Scene Description: at the angles of the basin side
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BBU01: design element - motifs - foliage?
Scene Description: a narrow band with individual foliage (?) motifs on each side
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BU01: human figure - head - 8
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LB01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - 16 arches - trefoiled arches
Scene Description: in pairs, two tall arches on each of the eight sides of the base
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LB02: design element - architectural - buttress - 8
Scene Description: one at each angler of the pedestal base
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R01: design element - patterns - crenellated
Scene Description: around the top of the rim side
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view of font and cover in context
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Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/rattlesden.htm
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Bond (1908)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05534RAT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17526183
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5-6 km W of Stowmarket, 10-12 km EES of Bury St Edmunds, S of the A14
Font Notes:
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Noted in Parker (1855): "Font, good D[ecorated]; an octagon, with panelled bowl". Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a 14th-century baptismal font ornamented with Ogee niches, as well as buttresses terminated in crocketed and finialed pinnacles. At Stannion and Rattlesden, adds Bond (ibid.), "the employment of battlement decoratively is another proof of the late date of the work; as also are the supermullions in the tracery round the lower parts". The octagonal basin has cinquefoil arches inside the Ogee windows; some of the corners of the graded chamfer are decorated with human heads, all different; the upper rim side is crenellated and has a narrow band of foliage (?) motif below it. The pedestal of the base is also octagonal and is ornamented with a pair of tall trefoil arches on each side; the corners or arrises are buttresses. Noted in Long (1923) as belonging to the Decorated [or 'Second Pointed'] period. James (1930) reports a "pretty" font in this church. Noted in Cautley (1982) as a 14th-century font.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Suffolk Churches, for his permission to reproduce the images of his web site.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal; flat and plain
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 231, 233 and ill. on p. 237
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982, p. 66 and pl. 49
- James, M. R., Suffolk and Norfolk, London, Toronto: Dent & Sons, 1930, p. 82
- Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
- Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; p. 70
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]