Ringsfield
Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2011
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Results: 11 records
B01: design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose
Scene Description: visible here in two of the panels
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2011
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2492464] [accessed 29 February 2012]
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B02: animal - mammal - lion - gardant
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2011
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2492464] [accessed 29 February 2012]
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B03: angel - demi-figure - holding shield
Scene Description: in the partially visible panel of the right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2011
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2492464] [accessed 29 February 2012]
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BU01: angel - cherub - 8
Scene Description: at the angles, upper level of the underbowl chamfer
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2011
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2492464] [accessed 29 February 2012]
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BU02: design element - motifs - floral - square flower - 8
Scene Description: at the sides, lower level of the underbowl chamfer
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2011
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2492464] [accessed 29 February 2012]
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UB01: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant - 4
Scene Description: alternating with the four buttresses on the base sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2011
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2492464] [accessed 29 February 2012]
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UB02: design element - architectural - buttress - 4
Scene Description: alternating with the four lions on the base sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2011
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2492464] [accessed 29 February 2012]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2009 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/ringsfield.htm] [accessed 29 February 2012]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2009 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/ringsfield.htm] [accessed 29 February 2012]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font visible at the west end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2492460] [accessed 29 February 2012]
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view of font and cover - east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2492464] [accessed 29 February 2012]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11764RIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Ringsfield, Suffolk, NR34 8JZ
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 3 km SW of Beccles, between it and Halesworth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Wangford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, centre aisle
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font / heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this church
Font Notes:
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Suckling (1846-1848), who describes this church as "a strange medley of styles", reports "a handsome octangular font of stone" inside it. Baptismal font of the East Anglia type consisting of an octagonal basin with deeply-carved vertical sides; the panels include sejant-gardant lions, Tudor roses and demi-angels holding shileds; the upper level of the underbowl chamfer has cherubs at the angles; the lower level has a square flower on each of the eight panels; the pedestal base alternates four sejant lions with four bery slender buttresses; the lower base and the plinth are narrow, square with chamfered corners. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, fitted over the upper rim of the basin; foliated finial.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.43993, 1.532666
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 26′ 23.75″ N, 1° 31′ 57.6″ E
UTM: 31U 400260 5810983
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
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