Thurston
Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2009
Standing permission
Results: 13 records
B01: human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose - head - foliage motif
Scene Description: one of two on this font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2009 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B02: design element - motifs - foliage - trefoiled leaves
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2009 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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B03: design element - motifs - foliage - trefoiled leaves
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2009 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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B04: design element - motifs - foliage - trefoiled leaves
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2009 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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B05: design element - motifs - foliage - heart-shaped leaves
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2009 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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B06: design element - motifs - foliage - trefoiled leaves
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2009 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B07: human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose - head
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2009 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B08: design element - motifs - foliage - heart-shaped leaves
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2009 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 25 September 2009 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 25 September 2009 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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UB01: design element - patterns - fluted
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 25 September 2009 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2009 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tom Stevenson, 2001
Image Source: digital photograph by Tom Stevenson [www.genealogysource.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received (e-mail of 27/3/2004)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 09399THU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century [restored], Decorated [restored]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W side of the nave
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26478244
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located about 7 km E of Bury St. Edmunds
Additional Comments: damaged font: repaired font MUST USE: [NB: "The font [...] was severely damaged in Victorian times when part of the church roof collapsed onto it. It was restored and conceals its past well showing no sign of its damage" [source: Green Man East Anglia http://website.lineone.net/~dominicow/Thurston%20S.htm]]
Font Notes:
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Parker (1855) notes: "The font is D[ecorated], octagon basin, large and deep, each face relieved with rich foliage". Listed in James (1930) as a good font. Octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated chiefly with foliage motifs of different shapes -heart-shaped and trefoliate- and arrangements, some of them with a human head in it surrounded by leaves ['Green Man' motif]; the underbowl is a graded set of mouldings; the stem is octagonal with vertical sides decorated with thin fluted pattern; the lower base. also octagonal splays out in graded mouldings. Dated to the 14th century. Knott (1999?) notes that "the font was rescued and repaired". There is evidence of repairs to the upper sides of the basin, with some insertion of new material [NB: "The font [...] was severely damaged in Victorian times when part of the church roof collapsed onto it. It was restored and conceals its past well showing no sign of its damage" [source: Green Man East Anglia http://website.lineone.net/~dominicow/Thurston%20S.htm]]. A plain flat wooden cover with a metal handle appears modern. The font is located in the centre of the nave towards the west end.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tom Stevenson, of www.genealogysource.com, and to Janice Tostevin for their photographs of this font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- James, M. R., Suffolk and Norfolk, London, Toronto: Dent & Sons, 1930, p. 73
- Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]