Theberton
Image copyright © Adrian Cable, 2014
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angel - cherub - head - 8
Scene Description: on the upper level of the basin underbowl, at the corners; some damaged
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 December 2014 by Adrian Cable [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4282816] [accessed 4 November 2016]
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angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - Eucharist
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 December 2014 by Adrian Cable [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4282816] [accessed 4 November 2016]
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angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - Trinity
Scene Description: seen here on the left panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrian Cable, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 December 2014 by Adrian Cable [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4282816] [accessed 4 November 2016]
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angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - cross
Scene Description: seen here on the right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrian Cable, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 December 2014 by Adrian Cable [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4282816] [accessed 4 November 2016]
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angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - the instruments of the Passion
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrian Cable, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 December 2014 by Adrian Cable [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4282816] [accessed 4 November 2016]
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animal - mammal - lion - gardant - 4
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 December 2014 by Adrian Cable [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4282816] [accessed 4 November 2016]
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animal - mammal - lion - sejant - 4
Scene Description: alternating with woodwooses
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrian Cable, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 December 2014 by Adrian Cable [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4282816] [accessed 4 November 2016]
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design element - motifs - floral - 8
Scene Description: on the lower level of the basin uinderbowl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrian Cable, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 December 2014 by Adrian Cable [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4282816] [accessed 4 November 2016]
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human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose - 4
Scene Description: alternating with sedente lions
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 December 2014 by Adrian Cable [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4282816] [accessed 4 November 2016]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robert Wilkes, 2016
Image Source: digital image of a 2016 drawing by Robert Wilkes
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ashley Dace, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2011 by Ashley Dace [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2390567] [accessed 4 November 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrian Cable, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 December 2014 by Adrian Cable [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4282805] [accessed 4 November 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
![showing the font and cover at the far [west] end](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1161104003_compressed.png)
Scene Description: showing the font and cover at the far [west] end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrian Cable, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 December 2014 by Adrian Cable [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4282808] [accessed 4 November 2016]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrian Cable, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 December 2014 by Adrian Cable [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4282816] [accessed 4 November 2016]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: beneath the tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrian Cable, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 December 2014 by Adrian Cable [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4282809] [accessed 4 November 2016]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 07397THE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Church Road, Theberton, Suffolk IP16 4RU
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off the B1122, just NW of Leiston
Historical Region: Hundred of Blything
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, beneath the tower
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font
Church Notes: round-tower church, probably 12thC
Font Notes:
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There is an enrtry for Theberton in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TM4365/theberton/] [accessed 4 November 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list here one of a group of East Anglian baptismal fonts in which "is the occurrence of alternate erect lions and wild hairy men (termed 'woodhouses') round the octagon shaft of the base". C&H mention Chediston, Halesworth, Middleton, Theberton and Wissett, all in the Hundred of Blything. Noted and illustrated in Billett (1997): "Both the hexagonal pulpit and the octagonal stone font date from the fifteenth century. The bowl of the latter is carved with lions and angels bearing shields, displaying the emblems of the trinity. On the stem there are also lions, angels and the wild, hairy men with clubs known as 'wodewoses'". Noted and illustrated in Knott (2010). The font has a wooden cover, octagonal and flat, but with small pyramidal centre, dated in Cautley (1982) to the 17th century. The four emblems on the charged shields held by the angel demi-figures are: the Trinity, Cross, Instruments of the Passion and the Eucharist.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.237291, 1.568253
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 14′ 14.25″ N, 1° 34′ 5.71″ E
UTM: 31U 402233 5788397
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
Billett, Michael, English thatched churches, London: Robert Hale, 2006
Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907