Barsham No. 2 / Bersham

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design element - architectural - window - Ogee

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - in a quatrefoil window - in a circle - 8

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design element - patterns - crenellated

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design element - patterns - crenellated

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view of church exterior - east side

view of font

view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nice font with wooden cover."

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view of font in context

INFORMATION

FontID: 11760BAR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity
Church Location: Barsham with Shipmeadow, Suffolk, NR34 8HA
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off the A146, E of Bungay
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for the photographs of the church and fonts.
Suckling (1846-1848) notes: "There was a church in Barsham, at the time of the Domesday Survey [...] The edifice is probably raised upon the site of that mentioned in the Domesday Book, but has no claims to Norman antiquity. [...] The font, which is coeval with the church, stands in an open space at the west end of the nave." Parker (1855) mentions only one font in this church: "Font, good D[ecorated], banded with shafts." Bond (1908) describes only the font cover -without a word about the font itself- as one of a common late type "brought from Ellingham in 1892", which "consists of an octagonal lid, moulded on the edge, which bears eight radiating trusses, rising from the angles and meeting at the head of a central baluster-shaped post, just below the finial, roughly suggesting a crown." Noted with an engraving in Suckling (1846-1848): "The font, which is coeval with the church, stands in an open space at the west end of the nave." The octagonal basin has deeply carved panels each with a rosette inscribed in a quatrefoil set in a circle; at the upper and lower rims, crenellated pattern; an attached colonnette with moulded capital and base at each angle of the stem, the sides proper decorated with tracery windows; the whole is raised on a two-step plinth.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 399705 5812671

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,
Notes: Bond [cf. FontNotes] refers to its date as a "late type"

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2006-04-25 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855
Suckling, Alfred, The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk, with genealogical and architectural notices of its several towns and villages, London: John Weale [...], 1846-1848
Suckling, Alfred, The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk, with genealogical and architectural notices of its several towns and villages, London: John Weale [...], 1846-1848