Hargrave nr. Bury St. Edmunds / Haragraua

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Results: 2 records

B01: symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - cusped quatrefoil - 8

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/hargrave.htm]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/hargrave.htm]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

Font ID: 12308HAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Edmund, Hargrave
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17545449
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Edmund the Martyr [aka Edmund of East Anglia]
Church Address: Church Ln, Hargrave, Bury Saint Edmunds IP29 5HH, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1284 615828
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A14, between Barrow and Wickhambrook, W of Bury St. Edmunds
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmunds bury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Thingoe
Additional Comments: disappeared font (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
There is an entry for this Hragrave [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TL7660/hargrave/] [accessed 29 June 202]; it reports "1 church. 0.1 church lands" in it. Noted in Parker (1855) as a font of the Perpendicular period. Described and illustrated in Knott (2008): "the font is a good late-medieval one, with a pleasing cover." The font consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with a blank shield inscribed in a cusped quatrefoil on each panel, a tall plain chamfer, raised on a plain octagonal stem and splaying lower base, all octagonal. Octagonal wooden cover consisting of a flat base from which stem eight sector ribs that converge at the foot of a short Latin-cross finial.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for the photograph of this font.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

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.
  • Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]