Earl Stonham / Earl Stoneham / Stonham Earl

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B01: design element - motifs - interlace - beaded-tape - reticulated - trefoiled ends

Scene Description: tapestry-like [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B02: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - St. George

Scene Description: vandalised [cf. Fontes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B03: design element - motifs - floral - rose - 6-point star inscribed

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B04: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - unidentified

Scene Description: vandalised [cf. Fontes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B05: design element - motifs - floral - rose - ball inscribed

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (email of 29 April 2012)

B06: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - Trinity

Scene Description: vandalised [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B07: symbol - heart - in a wreath

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B08: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - unidentified

Scene Description: vandalised [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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BU01: angel - cherub - 8

Scene Description: vandalised [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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BU02: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: has traces of reddish paint on it

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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UB01: design element - architectural - buttress - 4

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2001 by Benjamin Gallagher [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary%27s_Church,_Earl_Stonham_%28B%26W%29.jpg] [accessed 17 June 2012]

Copyright Instructions: Released by its author into the public domain

view of font - east side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12788STO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Earl Stonham, Suffolk, IP14 5EE

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located on the A1120, between Forward Green and the A140, 5 km NNE of Needham Market, 8 km E of Stowmarket

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich

Historical Region: Hundred of Bosmere

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Date: ca. 1460?

Century and Period: 15th century (mid?), Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janice Tostevin for her photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 notes: "the font curiously sculptured". Described in Parker (1855): "Font, an octagon, with angels in the panels of the bowl." The 11 July 1871 Stonham Meeting of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology reports: "The font is considerably defaced". The font, of East Anglia type, consists of an octagonal basin decorated with deeply carved panels in which semi-figure angels holding charged shields alternate with 1)a tapestry-like interlace with trefoiled floral ends (several of which are fleurs-de-lys); 2)a large rose with a six-point star in its core; 3)a large floral shape with a ball-shaed form bursting out of its core; 4)a heart inscribed in a wreath with four 3-petaled motifs; the four shields have been vandalised to erase the charges on them, but two of them retain a faint image of the original emblem; the one to the right of the interlace panel had the cross of St. George on it, and the one between the floral with the bursting ball and the heart inscribed in a wreath had the symbol of the Trinity on it. The vandalising did not stop at those symbols: the heads of the angel semi-figures have been smashed, as have the heads of the cherubs that decorated the underbowl chamfer. The octagonal-to-square pedestal base has also been defaced, and the figures that once stood on pedestals at the sides have disappeared; all that remains are the buttresses at the angles, but there are traces of reddish paint on it. The lead-lining of the inner basin well is a modern replacement. A note inside the church dates the font ca. 1460.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.18734, 1.081494

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 11′ 14.42″ N, 1° 4′ 53.38″ E

UTM: 31U 368850 5783610

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

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

Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855