Old Newton
Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2009
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Results: 15 records
B01: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 September 200 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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B02: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - blank
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B03: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 September 200 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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B04: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - blank
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 September 200 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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B05: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 September 200 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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B06: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - blank
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 September 200 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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B07: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 September 200 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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B08: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - blank
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 September 200 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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BU01: angel - head - 8
Scene Description: much damaged now
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 September 200 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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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].
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 September 200 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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UB01: view of base
Scene Description: a very damaged woodwose between two lions
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 September 200 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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UB02: animal - mammal - sejant - 4
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 September 200 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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UB03: human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose
Scene Description: much damaged; this one is the least damaged
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 September 200 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 September 200 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott, 2005 [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/oldnewton.htm]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12724NEW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font / heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17526209
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B1113, 5 km NE of Stowmarket
Font Notes:
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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.
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
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, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=51178] [accessed 21 February 2007]