Hintlesham

Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2009
Standing permission
Results: 19 records
B01: design element - motifs - floral - square flower - 4
B02: design element - motifs - floral - square flower
B03: design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose
B04: coat of arms - unidentified
B05: design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose
B06: coat of arms - unidentified
B07: design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose
B08: coat of arms - unidentified
BU02: animal - mammal - lion - head
BU03: angel - cherub - head
BU04: animal - mammal - lion - head
BU05: angel - cherub - head
BU06: animal - mammal - lion - head
BU07: angel - cherub - head
BU08: animal - mammal - lion - head
UB-2: design element - architectural - buttress - 4
UB01: angel - cherub - head
UB01: animal - mammal - lion - sejant - 4
INFORMATION
FontID: 11103HIN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located on the A1071, W of Ipswich, E of Hadleigh
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the organ gallery
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font / heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: Other East Anglian octagonal font of similar type in the area
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janice Tostevin for the photograph of this font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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.
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]. Accessed: 2009-10-28 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855