Charsfield
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - 4 (symbols)
Scene Description: alternating with angels
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/charsfield.htm]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
angel - 4
Scene Description: alternating with the symbols of the Evangelists
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/charsfield.htm]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
angel - cherub - 8
Scene Description: at the angles on the upper volume of the underbowl chamfer
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/charsfield.htm]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
animal
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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design element - motifs - floral - rose - 8
Scene Description: on the lower volume of the underbowl chamfer
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/charsfield.htm]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/charsfield.htm]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 11533CHA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off the B1078, about 8 km NNW of Woodbridge
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for the information on and photograph of this font and church.
Font Notes:
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Gough (1792) writes: "Charsfield has had animals squatting on the shaft, and on the vase symbols of the Evangelists and angels alternately." A partial view of the font can be found in Simon Knott's web site [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/charsfield.htm]; the basin is octagonal, though rather irregular, with deeply-carved panels between buttresses with crocketed pinnacles; the underbowl has angels at the angles, their spread wings crossing and filling the sides between on the upper volume, the lower one showing a rosette on each side; the font is heavily whitewashed, and shows damage to the upper rim consistent with the forceful removal of the staples of the old cover.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
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]. Accessed: 2006-02-26 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.