Horham

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B01: angel - holding shield - 4

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph in www.95thbg-horham.com [accessed 9 February 2007]

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B02: animal

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph in www.95thbg-horham.com [accessed 9 February 2007]

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BU01: head?

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph in www.95thbg-horham.com [accessed 9 February 2007]

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BU02: design element - motifs - floral - rosette?

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph in www.95thbg-horham.com [accessed 9 February 2007]

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LBF01: unidentified

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Image Source: digital photograph in www.95thbg-horham.com [accessed 9 February 2007]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: font in interior looking east

Image Source: digital photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/sf/horha/index.htm] [accessed 9 February 2007]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph in www.95thbg-horham.com [accessed 9 February 2007]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12665HOR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located on the B1117 near Denham

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Norman Feltwell, of www.95thbg-horham.com, for the photograph of this font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 does not mention the font itself, but notes that "the cover of the font [is] richly carved". Dowsing (1885) reports on his visit to this church in 1643/1644 "a Holy Water Font" in the chancel, and "a Triangle on the Font" [a Trinity?], but does not say whether they destroyed or defaced it or not. Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/horham.html] [accessed 9 February 2007] notes that "the font was Dowsinged in 1644" [NB: a reference to the destruction of religious art by zealot and iconoclast William Dowsing chiefly in East Anglia]. The deeply carved sides of the octagonal basin are decorated with angels holding shields alternating with lions (or symbols of the Evangelists?); the underbowl appears to have heads (cherub heads?) at the angles on the upper level, and rosettes on the lower level; defaced figures (and/or animals?) on the stem; mouldings on the lower base; octagonal plinth. Tallish (ca. 3 ft.?) pyramidal wooden cover with crocketed arrises. [We are grateful to Norman Feltwell, of www.95thbg-horham.com, for the photograph of this font].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Dowsing, William, of Stratford, The Journal of William Dowsing, of Stratford, Parliamentary visitor, appointed under a warrant from the Earl of Manchester, for demolishing the superstitious pictures and ornaments of churches &c., within the County of Suffolk, in the years 1643-1644, Ipswich: Pawsey and Hayes, 1885

Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2007-02-09 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