Hintlesham / Hindesham
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Results: 19 records
B01: design element - motifs - floral - square flower - 4
Scene Description: on a single panel of the basin
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B02: design element - motifs - floral - square flower
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B03: design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose
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B04: symbol - shield - coat of arms - unidentified
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B05: design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose
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B06: symbol - shield - coat of arms - unidentified
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B07: design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose
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B08: symbol - shield - coat of arms - unidentified
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BU02: animal - mammal - lion - head
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BU03: angel - cherub - head
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BU04: animal - mammal - lion - head
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BU05: angel - cherub - head
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BU06: animal - mammal - lion - head
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BU07: angel - cherub - head
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BU08: animal - mammal - lion - head
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UB-2: design element - architectural - buttress - 4
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UB01: angel - cherub - head
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UB01: animal - mammal - lion - sejant - 4
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11103HIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font / heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: Other East Anglian octagonal font of similar type in the area
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas, Hintlesham
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the organ gallery
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26634727
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Address: A1071 George St, Hintlesham, Ipswich IP8 3NH, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1473 657349
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A1071, W of Ipswich, E of Hadleigh
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Sandford [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Hintlesham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM0843/hintlesham/] [accessed 20 June 2025], one of which reports "1.5 churches. 0.29 church lands" in it. Described in Parker (1855) as an octagonal font "with panelled bowl and pedestal". Noted in James Fielding [http://digitatlas.blogspot.com]: "The font is an E[ast] A[nglian] affair with lions on the base and Tudor rose and shields on the bowl." Noted in Knott (2009): "typically East Anglian; in good condition, and set rather gloomily under the organ gallery." There are four charged shields on the basin sides, two Tudor roses, one large square flower and a panel with four square flowers; the angles of the underbowl are exceptional in that there are only four angels, the other four, though originally designed for angels, as the incisions made by the carver still show angel's wings, are lion heads with wind-blown manes; the stem has four sedente lions alternating with four buttresses.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janice Tostevin for the photograph of this font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
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]