Brandeston / Brandestuna / Brantestuna
Results: 7 records
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/brandeston.html] [accessed 25 May 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 12
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/brandeston.html] [accessed 25 May 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "All Saints Church, Brandeston"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrew Hill, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 1 August 2009 by Andrew Hill [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1424549] [accessed 27 February 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5
view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Inside Brandeston church The interior of All Saints Church."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrew Hill, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 1 August 2009 by Andrew Hill [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1424554] [accessed 27 February 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Brandeston, All Saints: font" -- notice the line of the crack and repair across the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph 13 August 2010 by Basher Eyre [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2014320] [accessed 27 February 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/brandeston.html] [accessed 25 May 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11472BRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Cognate Fonts: another hexagonal font of the 13th century in Suffolk at Layham
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Notes: present church 14thC
Church Address: Brandeston, Woodbridge IP13 7AH, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1473 737280
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A1120, near Earl Soham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Babergh [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Brandeston [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM2460/brandeston/] [accessed 27 February 2023], one of which reports " church. 0.1 church lands" in it. Gough (1792) writes: "hexagon in four stories, and on its wooden dome cover the arms of Revett with quarterings 1711" [NB: the present cover, however, is octagonal, plain and flat; modern] Listed in Paley (1844) as a hexagonal baptismal font [NB: it is octagonal]. Parker (1855), however, reports it as early, "an octagon bowl, with slightly sunk panels". Listed in Cautley (1982) as a baptismal font of the 13th century, and another hexagonal font at Layham. Illustrated in Knott (2008), who identifies the material as Purbeck marble. The basin was broken right through and has been expertly repaired. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TM2478960303] notes: "Parish church. Medieval, restored 1862-3 [...] C13 octagonal font with Purbeck marble bowl". Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble, Polygonal I Type (Octagonal): no details [source given: H. Munro Cautley].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Suffolk Churches, for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 382979 5784122
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.19512, 1.2879
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 11′ 42.43″ N, 1° 17′ 16.44″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone [Purbeck marble]
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1711?
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982, p. 65
- Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; p. 199
- Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 22
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]