Barsham No. 2 / Bersham
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Nice font with wooden cover."
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view of font
design element - patterns - crenellated
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design element - patterns - crenellated
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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - in a quatrefoil window - in a circle - 8
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view of church exterior - east side
view of font in context
design element - architectural - window - Ogee
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11760BAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity
Church Address: Barsham with Shipmeadow, Suffolk, NR34 8HA, UK
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A146, E of Bungay
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Font Notes:
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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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for the photographs of the church and fonts.
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, p. 291 (on the font cover)
- Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]
- 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, vol. 1 [ww.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=75109] [accessed 28 February 2012]
- 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, vol. 1: 42