Tostock

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Results: 4 records

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B01: design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: several varied patterns on the sides

Image Source: photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/tostock.htm] [accessed 11 November 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B02: human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose - head

Image Source: photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/tostock.htm] [accessed 11 November 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

BU01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/tostock.htm] [accessed 11 November 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of basin

Image Source: Digital image in James Fielding [http://digitatlas.blogspot.com]

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

INFORMATION

FontID: 11099TOS

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A14, 11-12 km E of Bury St. Edmunds

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated

Cognate Fonts: Similar to the font at Thurston

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Parker (1855) reports a font of the Decorated period in this church. Noted in Knott (1999?): "The font is a pattern book of Decorated windows, but look out for the green man peering out of the foliage on the north face. Not sure what William Dowsing thought of it - he may have missed it. He came this way on the afternoon of February 5th 1644, and smashed 16 panes of stained glass because of the Catholic imagery they contained." Medieval baptismal font; the octagonal basin has vertical sides decorated with foliage among which, at least on one side, the face of a Green Man; the underbowl is decorated with graded mouldings.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

Notes: round, flat and plain

REFERENCES

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