North Cove

Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009

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Results: 11 records

B01: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - blank - 4?

Scene Description: alternating with kions on the basin side

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B02: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant - 4?

Scene Description: alternating wti angels holding shields on the basin sides

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B03: design element - motifs - floral - rosette

Scene Description: tiny ones, on the frames of the basin side panels

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BU01: human figure - head - 8

Scene Description: all different; some wearing head coverings, some bearded, etc.

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BU02: design element - motifs - floral - varied

Scene Description: square, rosettes, etc.

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UB01: design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases - 8

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: NéA

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: at the west end of the nave

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view of font cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11761COV
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Botolph
Church Patron Saints: St. Botulph [aka St. Botolph, Botolph of Thorney, Botulf]
Church Location: North Cove, Beccles NR34 7PH, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1502 716370
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off the A146, 5 km SE of Beccles
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font / heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of church and font
Church Notes: "some of the finest surviving medieval wall-paintings in all East Anglia." (retouched in the Victorian period) [cf. SuffolkChurches www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/northcove.htm [accessed 28 Feb2012]
Described in Suckling (1846-1848): "a good octangular font at the west end, in excellent preservation, though its sculpture is clogged with paint; a species of embellishment much affected by modern churchwardens." Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 notes: "the font is curiously sculptured." Noted in Parker (1855) and in Cautley (1982). Knott (2009) writes: "The 15th Century font seems relatively large in this narrow space. Sam Mortlock thought it was so like those at nearby Mutford and Gisleham that it was probably carved by the same mason." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TM4616289390] notes: "Parish church. Medieval; chancel restored 1874 [...] Well-preserved early C15 octagonal font, the faces of the bowl carved alternately with angels bearing shields and with lions; under the bowl there are heads with headdresses (cf. Gisleham)." The baptismal font is of the East Anglia type, consisting of an octagonal basin with vertical deeply-carved panels containing angel demi-figures holding shields alternating with seated lions; on the panel frames, little rosettes; underbowl chamfer decorated with human heads at the angles and floral motifs on the panels; pedestal base of eight (?) clustered columns with moulded capitals and bases; on a two-step plinth. The wooden cover is pyramidal octagonal, with see-through qautrefoils on the sides; large Latin cross finial.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.44665, 1.621
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 26′ 47.94″ N, 1° 37′ 15.6″ E
UTM: 31U 406278 5811612

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831
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