Exning / Ixning
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Results: 8 records
B01: symbol - shield - blank - in an octafoil - 4
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Image Source: "Ixning Church & Font, Suffolk" engraved after Cooper Wylliams and published in The Topographer for the year 1790 [http://www.antiqueprints.com/proddetail.php?prod=e5562] [accessed 28 November 2008]
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B02: design element - motifs - floral or foliage - in a quatrefoil - 4
Scene Description: are they foliated crosses? [cf. Font notes]
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BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding
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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding
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Image Source: "Ixning Church & Font, Suffolk" engraved after Cooper Wylliams and published in The Topographer for the year 1790 [http://www.antiqueprints.com/proddetail.php?prod=e5562] [accessed 28 November 2008]
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
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Image Source: "Ixning Church & Font, Suffolk" engraved after Cooper Wylliams and published in The Topographer for the year 1790 [http://www.antiqueprints.com/proddetail.php?prod=e5562] [accessed 28 November 2008]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/exningmartin.htm] [accessed 28 November 2008]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/exningmartin.htm] [accessed 28 November 2008]
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view of font
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INFORMATION
FontID: 12508EXN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located on the A14, 3 km NW of Newmarket
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, by the tower arch
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this church -- We are also grateful to Steve Bartrick Antique Prints & Maps [www.antiqueprints.com] for their image of this church and font
Font Notes:
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Illustrated in The Topographer (1790). Noted in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 simply as "an ancient font". In Parker (1855) as "a good octagonal font". The font consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with foiled panels with inscribed motifs and symbols; four sides have octafoil panels with blank shields inscribed, alternating with the other four with foliage or floral motifs inscribed in quatrefoils [NB: these latter motifs appear to resemble foliated crosses]; the lower edge of the basin is moulded, and there are mouldings on the underbowl, stem and lower base. The font could well date from the same period as the building, which Lewis (ibid.) dates to the 14th century. [NB: the fabric of the building goes back to the 12th century, but we have no information on the earlier font of this church]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2008-11-28 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
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