Bramfield / Bramfield nr. Halesworth / Bufelda
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 August 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2045389] [accessed 21 September 2016]
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design element - patterns - crenellated
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2016
Image Source: digital photo graph taken by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/bramfield.htm] [accessed 21 September 2016]
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design element - patterns - crenellated
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2016
Image Source: digital photo graph taken by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/bramfield.htm] [accessed 21 September 2016]
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2016
Image Source: digital photo graph taken by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/bramfield.htm] [accessed 21 September 2016]
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view of church exterior - detail
Scene Description: the southwest end of the church and the detached tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bernd Jatzwauk Pommes104, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2006 by Bernd Jatzwauk Pommes104 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bramfield-g3.jpg] [accessed 21 August 2016]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital scan of a F. Bedford lithograph based on a drawing by Alfred Suckling (1848)
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: a view west from the east end of the chancel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2016
Image Source: digital photo graph taken by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/bramfield.htm] [accessed 21 September 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: with a good view of the chancel screen
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2016
Image Source: digital photo graph taken by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/bramfield.htm] [accessed 21 September 2016]
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - double arcade (up and down) - cinquefoiled arches - 16
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2016
Image Source: digital photo graph taken by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/bramfield.htm] [accessed 21 September 2016]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: capitals and bases of the outer colonnettes
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2016
Image Source: digital photo graph taken by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/bramfield.htm] [accessed 21 September 2016]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11710BRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Notes: round-tower church [only detached round tower in Suffolk?]
Church Address: Walpole Road, Bramfield, Suffolk IP19 9AB, United Kingdom
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) of the A144, 8 km S of Halesworth, 25 km SE of Lowestoft, 40 km NE of Ipswich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Blything
Additional Comments: altered font (heavily restored in the 19thC)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Bramfield [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TM3973/bramfield/] [accessed 21 September 2016]; it mentions a church and church lands in it. A font here is noted in Suckling (1846-1848): "A good font of stone occupies its ancient position near the west end of the nave." The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: TM3989973797] (196) notes: "Octagonal font, heavily restored C19." Illustrated in Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/bramfield.htm]: octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with quatrefoils inscribed in circles between two bands of crenellation; mouldings on the upper end of the eight attached colonnettes of the base form the underbowl; two rows of cinquefoil arches up-and-dwon the sides of the stem; bases of the colonettes also moulded; plain octagonal plinth. Flat octagonal wooden cover with metal decoration and ring handle.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/bramfield.htm] for his photographs of thischurch and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 398960 5796530
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.3098, 1.5179
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 18′ 35.28″ N, 1° 31′ 4.44″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.