Mendlesham No. 2
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
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Results: 4 records
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott, 2005 [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/mendlesham.htm] [accessed 20 February 2007]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott, 2005 [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/mendlesham.htm] [accessed 20 February 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott, 2005 [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/mendlesham.htm] [accessed 20 February 2007]
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view of base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott, 2005 [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/mendlesham.htm] [accessed 20 February 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12712MEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1600?
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th - 17th century/ 19th century
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary [originally from Rishangles St. Margaret's]
Font Location in Church: In the porch
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary%27s_Church,_Mendlesham
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located about 20 km E of Bury St Edmunds, 25 km NNW of Ipswich [Rishangles is located 6 km S of Eye
Font Notes:
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Lewis' Directory of 1848 noted: "the font is of Caen stone, and elaborately sculptured". Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/mendlesham.htm] [accessed 19 February 2007] writes: "pressed into service as a holy water stoup is one of the loveliest fonts in the county. It came from Rishangles, when the church there was made redundant and sold off by the money-changers. It has had various claims made for its age, Mortlock unaccountably dating it as 1600; but is must surely be late 19th century." [cf. Index entry for Mendlesham No. 1 for the baptismal font inside the nave and its showy 17th-century cover]. [We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Suffolk Churches, for the photographs of this font]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Suffolk Churches, for the photographs of this font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, Caen stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, flat and plain; modern
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.
- 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=51240] [accessed 26 February 2007]