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

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2009 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B02: design element - motifs - foliage - trefoiled leaves

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2009 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B03: design element - motifs - foliage - trefoiled leaves

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2009 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B04: design element - motifs - foliage - trefoiled leaves

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 25 September 2009 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2009 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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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

FontID: 09399THU
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located about 7 km E of Bury St. Edmunds
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W side of the nave
Century and Period: 14th century [restored], Decorated [restored]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tom Stevenson, of www.genealogysource.com, and to Janice Tostevin for their photographs of this font.
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.

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
Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-11-11 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855