Tostock
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Standing permission
Results: 4 records
B01: design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: several varied patterns on the sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/tostock.htm] [accessed 11 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © James Fielding, 2005
Image Source: Digital image in James Fielding [http://digitatlas.blogspot.com]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11099TOS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Cognate Fonts: Similar to the font at Thurston
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew, Tostock
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17526441
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: Church Rd, Tostock, Bury Saint Edmunds IP30 9PE, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1359 235095
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A14, 11-12 km E of Bury St. Edmunds
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Font Notes:
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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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font
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]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]