Horham
Image copyright © Norman Feltwell, 2006
Permission received (e-mail of 10 February 2007)
Results: 7 records
B01: angel - holding shield - 4
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Norman Feltwell, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in www.95thbg-horham.com [accessed 9 February 2007]
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B02: animal
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Norman Feltwell, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in www.95thbg-horham.com [accessed 9 February 2007]
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BU01: human figure - head?
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Norman Feltwell, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in www.95thbg-horham.com [accessed 9 February 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 10 February 2007)
BU02: design element - motifs - floral - rosette?
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Norman Feltwell, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in www.95thbg-horham.com [accessed 9 February 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 10 February 2007)
LBF01: unidentified
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Norman Feltwell, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in www.95thbg-horham.com [accessed 9 February 2007]
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view of font and cover
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Norman Feltwell, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in www.95thbg-horham.com [accessed 9 February 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 10 February 2007)
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: font in interior looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Ron Baxter, 2005
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]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12665HOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17535450
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B1117 near Denham
Additional Comments: damaged font / defaced font : one of Downsing's victims -- laso a destroyed stoup?
Font Notes:
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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].
Credit and Acknowledgements: 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, p. 31
- Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. 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, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=51044] [accessed 9 February 2007]