Framlingham
Results: 9 records
B02: symbol - shield - Holy Trinity
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: Simon Knott [ww.suffolkchurches.co.uk/framcofe.html]
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B03: design element - architectural - buttress - crocketed pinnacle - 8
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BU01: angel - cherub - 8
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BU01: angel - head - 8
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UB01: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant - 4
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UB02: human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose - 4
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view of font and cover
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view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: Simon Knott [ww.suffolkchurches.co.uk/framcofe.html]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 09408FRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century [re-cut?], Perpendicular [altered?]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Evangelists' font / heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church fo St. Michael the Archangel
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, just W of the S door
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 25 km MNNE of Ipswich
Additional Comments: recycled font: Simon Knott argues that it has been re-cut
Font Notes:
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Noted in Parker (1855): "Font, an octagon, with the emblems of the Evangelists, and a tolerable cover of wood." Described and illustrated in Simon Knott's Suffolk Churches [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk]: "The font [...] is interesting and good, but I cannot believe that it has not been recut". The font is octagonal, of the 15th century, as is the pyramidal cover on it. The basin has vertical sides with framed panels in which angels hold shields with coat-of-arms symbols [NB: Knott describes one of them "an angel holds a recut symbol of the Holy Trinity; another holds Instruments of the Passion"]; the angles of the octagon have buttresses decorated with crocketed pinnacles; the underbowl is decorated also, with cherub heads spreading the wings at each angle. The pedestal base, also octagonal is decorated with figures at the angles, alternating larger with smaller carvings (lions, woodwooses, etc.]. Octagonal plinth. The tall pyramidal cover is wooden, with pronounced ribs at the angles decorated with serrated edges and a finial. The font-cover is noted in Howard & Crossley (1919).
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk for the information and images of this font].
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 15th century (a/p S. Knott)
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Friar, Stephen, The Sutton Companion to Churches, Thrupp, Stroud (Gloucs.): Sutton Publishing, 2003, ill. on p. 203
- Howard, F.E., English Church Woodwork: a Study in Craftmanship during the Mediaeval period A.D. 1250-1550, London: B.T. Batsford, 1919, [http://www.archive.org/stream/englishchurchwoo00howauoft/englishchurchwoo00howauoft_djvu.txt]
- 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]