Stowlangtoft / Stow Langtoft
Results: 16 records
B01: New Testament - Virgin Mary - Madonna with Christ-child
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/stowlangtoft.htm
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B02: Apostle or saint - St. George and the dragon
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/stowlangtoft.htm
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B08: human figure - male - warrior - with sword in the right hand - with long shield in the left hand - shield charged with emblem
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/stowlangtoft.htm
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B10: design element - architectural - arcade - Ogee arches - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/stowlangtoft.htm
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
BS01: symbol - triquetra - 16
Scene Description: one in each of the spandrels formed by the basin arcade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/stowlangtoft.htm
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
BU01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/stowlangtoft.htm
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
LB01: design element - patterns - fluted
Scene Description: on the sides of the stem of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/stowlangtoft.htm
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/stowlangtoft.htm
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view of church interior - chancel - detail
Scene Description: Identified in James (1930) as Flemish work in the chancel: Harrowing of Hell
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving in James (1930)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of church interior - chancel - detail
Scene Description: Identified in James (1930) as Flemish work in the chancel: Harrowing of Hell (detail)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: detail of an engraving in James (1930)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05749STO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century (early), Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. George
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17526260
Church Patron Saint(s): St. George
Church Notes: James (1930) mentions and illustrates an interesting 15th-16th century Harrowing of Hell in this otherwise Norman church; in this image, a figure (demon?) to the side of the Mouth-of-Hell carries a large key on its back.
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just E of the A1088, about 10 km EEN of Bury St. Edmunds
Additional Comments: damaged font: removal of staples of the old font? mutilated? weathered? [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Noted in Parker (1855) as "octagonal, with figures of saints on the basin, and the stem carved with the linen pattern." Noted in James (1930): "The font has saints about it: Virgin and Child, St. Margaret, Nicholas (?), Peter, Stephen, Paul, George, and (?) John Baptist". Knott (2005?), who quotes Mortlock (1988-) dating of the font to the early 14th century, identifies St. Margaret, St. Catherine, St. Peter and St. Paul, and St. George. With regards to the state of the font, Knott (ibid.) disagrees with Mortlock (ibid.) opinion that the font had been mutilated: "this stone appeares weathered. I wonder if this font was removed from the church , probably in the mid-17th century, and served an outdoor purpose until it was returned in the 19th century." There is significant damage to one of the upper corners of the basin, to the right of armed warrior scene, probably caused by the forceful removal of one of the old cover staples.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of ww.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for this photographs of this font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and plian, octagonal
REFERENCES
- James, M. R., Suffolk and Norfolk, London, Toronto: Dent & Sons, 1930, p. 67
- Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
- Mortlock, Derek P., The Popular Guide to Suffolk Churches, 1988-, vol. 1: [?]
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]