Santon Downham
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
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Results: 2 records
BU01: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [http://www.simonknott.co.uk/suffolkchurches/santondownham.htm] [accessed 2 June 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [http://www.simonknott.co.uk/suffolkchurches/santondownham.htm] [accessed 2 June 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 06041SAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located N of the B1107, in Thetford Forest, near Brandon
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for the photograph of this font
Font Notes:
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Parker (1855) reports a plain octagonal font in this church. Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one in a very large group of baptismal fonts that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins. The font consists of an octagonal basin with plain tapering sides, a moulded underbowl also tapering to a plain octagonal stem and a splying lower base. On an octagonal plinth, at the west end of the nave, by the tower entrance. The font has had damage and stone-insert repairs at the upper rim. Cautley (1982) notes the simple 17th-century wooden cover. The cover is an octagonal pyramid with decorated arrisses and a knob finial. Both font and cover are illustrated in Knott (2008).
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982
Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-06-02 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928