Baylham / Beleham
Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2012
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Results: 18 records
B01: angel - holding shield - emblem - Trinity
![much damaged [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1120615040_compressed.png)
Scene Description: much damaged [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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B02: design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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B03: angel - holding shield - emblem - the instruments of the Passion
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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B04: design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose
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B05: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant
Scene Description: facing the right
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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B06: design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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B07: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant
Scene Description: facing the left
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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B08: design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose
Scene Description: notice the damage to the panel
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B09: design element - motifs - floral - rosette
Scene Description: a number of tiny ones in some of the panels
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BU01: angel - cherub - 8
Scene Description: all the heads vandalised
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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BU02: design element - motifs - floral - flower - 8
Scene Description: on the lower panels of the underbowl
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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UB01: animal - mammal - lion - sejant
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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UB02: animal - mammal - lion - sejant
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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UB03: animal - mammal - lion - sejant
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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UB04: animal - mammal - lion - sejant
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UB05: design element - architectural - buttress - 4
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 21 June 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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view of font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrian S Pye, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 August 2007 by Adrian S Pye [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2084627] [accessed 15 June 2012]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 14432BAY
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. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Church Lane, Baylham, Suffolk, IP6 8JT
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 10 km SE of Stowmarket, 11 km NW of Ipswich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Font Notes:
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Noted in Parker (1855): "Font, P[erpendicular]; an octagon, with panels and shields around the bowl." Dowsing (1885), in his 1643/1644 visit to this church mentions "There was the Trinity in a Triangle, on the Font", but does not mention the other one with the Instruments of the Passion, which he obviously did not miss with his hammers and axes. In Cautley (1938): "a traditional font". The font is of one of the traditional East Anglian designs, and consists of an octagonal basin decorated with deeply-carved panels containing Tudor roses alternating with four others that have: 1)lion sejant gardant facing left; 2)angel holding a shield charged with the symbol of the Trinity; 3)angel holding shield charged with the Instruments of the Passion; 4)lion sejant gardant facing right; one of the rose panels is badly damaged; the upper level of the underbowl has cherub heads at the angles but their heads have been vandalised and only the wings and some of their hair has survived; the lower level of the underbowl has a large flower on each of the eight panels; the base proper is octagonal-to-square, capped buttresses at the angles alternating with sejant lions on the sides, the heads of the animals vandalised as well. The flat and miserable font cover appears makeshift; is there another, a proper cover, elsewhere in the church?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janice Tostevin for her photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 367883 5776422
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.122522, 1.070151
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 7′ 21.08″ N, 1° 4′ 12.55″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk Churches and their Treasures, London: Batsford, 1938
- Dowsing, William, of Stratford, The Journal of William Dowsing, of Stratford, Parliamentary visitor, appointed under a warrant from the Earl of Manchester, for demolishing the superstitious pictures and ornaments of churches &c., within the County of Suffolk, in the years 1643-1644, Ipswich: Pawsey and Hayes, 1885, p. 30
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [enrty no.] 6