Charsfield / Caresfelda / Carsfelda / Caresfella / Cerefelda / Ceresfelda / Ceresfella / Cerfella / Cerresfella / Heresfelda
Results: 6 records
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
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
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
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11533CHA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century, Late Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter, Charsfield
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17526985
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Charsfield, Woodbridge IP13 7QB, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1728 685308
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B1078, about 8 km NNW of Woodbridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Loose [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: damaged font: [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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There are eleven entries for Charsfield [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM2556/charsfield/] [accessed 22 June 2025]; one of the entries, for the land of Robert Malet, reports "1 church. 0.3 church lands" in it. 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.
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.
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]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.