Hawstead / Hawsted
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view of church interior - nave - west end
Scene Description: the old basin mounted on modern columns, lower base and plinth
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/hawstead.html] [accessed 11 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Medieval Combat Society, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by The Medieval Combat Society, 2006 [http://www.themcs.org/churches/Hawstead%20All%20Saints.html] [accessed 11 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 11540HAW
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 5-6 km S of Bury St. Edmunds
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font
Gough (1792) [after Cullum?] writes: "The remains of the iron fastenings for locking the cover of the font at Hawsted [sic] are still to be seen." Noted also in Parker (1855), with the same spelling for the village, as a font "formed of two square blocks". Noted and illustrated in Knott (2008): "The great space under the tower has been reinvented as a baptistery […] A figure of St John the Baptist forms a finial on the font cover." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008) with suggested date in the 12th-century for the basin. The base reported in Parker above was obviously replaced by a 'proper' one probably in Victorian times, and it now [2008] las a base consisting of a broad and plain octagonal shaft and four detached slender colonnettes decorated with capitals and bases, on a chamfer quadrangular lower base and an octagonal plinth. The wooden cover is a square dome with the finial reported in Knott above.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Diameter (inside rim): 54 cm*
Basin Total Height: 46 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 68 x 66-69 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [a/p the CRSBI (2008)]
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2009-11-11 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
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; r["References"]
Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-11-11 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855