Finningham / Infelicham / Infinangaham / Infiningaham
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Results: 8 records
view of font
Scene Description: the restored/altered font [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 2025 by Sarah Blick
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view of font and cover in context
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Image Source: digital photograph 2025 by Sarah Blick
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head or mask - in a quatrefoil
Scene Description: seen here in the centre panel -- unable to identify as either animal or human -- it is probably a re-carving
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 2025 by Sarah Blick
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design element - motifs - floral - rose - in a diamond or lozenge
Scene Description: it is probably a re-carving
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 2025 by Sarah Blick
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view of church exterior - southeast v
Scene Description: "St Bartholomew, Finningham"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 8 April 2019 by John Salmon
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5
view of font and cover in context - east view
Scene Description: "St Bartholomew, Finningham - West end"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 8 April 2019 by John Salmon
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view of font cover - pulley and counterweight - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sarah Blick, 2025
Image Source: digital photograph 2025 by Sarah Blick
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view of font cover
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Image Source: digital photograph 2025 by Sarah Blick
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12616FIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (?), Perpendicular [altered]
Cognate Fonts: We are garteful to Sarah Blick for her photographs of this font and cover
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Bartholomew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17526400
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Bartholomew
Church Address: Church Ln, Finningham, Stowmarket IP14, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1359 258806
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B113, 6 km NW of Thwaite, in he municipality and 12-13 km N of Stowmarket, about 25 km from Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Hartismere [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here?)
Town/City Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finningham
Font Notes:
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There are six entries for Finningham [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM0669/finningham/] [accessed 18 March 2026]; one of them reports "1 church. 0.21 church lands" in it. A font in this church is reported in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 as an elaborately sculptured font. Parker (1855) writes: "Font, P[erpendicular], an octagon, with panelled bowl; it has a tall cover, the upper part of which is very good." Cautley (1982) notes the pre-Reformation font cover. The font-cover is described in Howard & Crossley (1919). The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TM0664969396] notes: "Parish church. Early C14, south porch added and refenestrated in C15, north porch added in C16; restored and chancel largely rebuilt 1886 [...] Octagonal font at west end of nave, late C15 restored; complex double base has rebates in upper section to create a Maltese cross, heavily moulded stem with cusped pointed arched panels, roll moulded surrounds, coving to bowl with quatrefoil traceried panels, roses and masks, square patterning on alternate panels. Ornate C15 timber font cover, brattishing over moulded base, complex traceried panels with varying geometrical designs of squares and circles, crocketing up to low pinnacle, lifting system with ornate wrought iron weight."
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 365480 5794470
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.28411, 1.0279
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 17′ 2.8″ N, 1° 1′ 40.44″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 16th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: yes
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982, p. 87
- Howard, F.E., English Church Woodwork: a Study in Craftmanship during the Mediaeval period A.D. 1250-1550, London: B.T. Batsford, 1919, p. 322, 327
- 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, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=50963] [accessed 5 February 2007]
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]