Old Newton

Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2009
Standing permission
Results: 15 records
B01: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant
B02: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - blank
B03: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant
B04: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - blank
B05: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant
B06: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - blank
B07: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant
B08: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - blank
BU01: angel - head - 8
BU02: design element - motifs - floral - 8
Scene Description: Below the angel heads, on the panels [NB: these motifs are on the base block, whereas the angels are part of the basin block].
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 September 200 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
UB01: view of base
UB02: animal - mammal - sejant - 4
UB03: human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose
view of church exterior - south view
INFORMATION
FontID: 12724NEW
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 B1113, 5 km NE of Stowmarket
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font / heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Suffolk Churches, for the photograph of this church, and to Janice Tostevin for her photographs of the font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports "a finely-sculptured font" in this Perpendicular church. The octagonal basin has demi-figures of angels holding shields [now blank] alternating with sejant-gardant lions on the sides; the underbowl has angel heads at the angles, and floral motifs on the panels below; the lower base is much damaged, but there are seated lions at the angles alternating with small woodwoses on the panels, all of them raised on polygonal platforms. No plinth. Wooden cover; appears modern.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
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