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BBU01: design element - motifs - floral
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Ron Baxter, 2008
Image Source: photograph in the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [http://www.crsbi.ac.u] [accessed 29 October 2009]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Ron Baxter, 2008
Image Source: photograph in the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [http://www.crsbi.ac.u] [accessed 29 October 2009]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 12735ONE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 3 km W of Stowmarket, 16 km E of Bury St. Edmunds
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Font Notes:
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Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports: "the font is very ancient". Noted in Parker (1855): "The font is transition N[orman], with a square bowl". Listed in Cautley (1982) and Mortlock (1988) as a baptismal font of the 12th century. Knott (2008) comments: "the font was ancient when the nave was built" [NB: Knott dates the nave to the 15th century]. The Onehouse web site [http://www.onehouse.org.uk/html/church.html] [accessed 29 October 2009] notes: "he font is Norman or even earlier, unevenly placed on a later plinth." Described and illustrated in the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (2008): "Its roughly shaped bowl is best described as a large, bulging cushion capital, hollowed out. It has angle tucks and a slight chamfer at the upper rim, and the upper angles are decorated with large lilies, much worn. It is lead lined and damaged by drill holes at the cardinal points of the rim. The bowl stands on a square chamfered block and this on a square stem with chamfered angles on a chamfered plinth. Only the bowl is 12thc."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cauldron-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Rim Thickness: 7.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 56 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 71 cm*
Basin Total Height: 35 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [measurements a/p the CRSBI]
REFERENCES
Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2009-10-29 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2007-02-22 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
Mortlock, Derek P., The Popular Guide to Suffolk Churches, 1988-
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855