Thornham Parva / Little Thornham
Image copyright © John Salmon, 2015
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Results: 8 records
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 July 2015 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4587754] [accessed 20 November 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Janice Tostevin
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - tracery - varied
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Janice Tostevin
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robert Wilkes, 2016
Image Source: digital image of a 2016 drawing by Robert Wilkes
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 November 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4733240] [accessed 20 November 2016]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: Thornham Parva: St. Mary's Church: The chancel, nave and tower are all thatched in Norfolk reed"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 November 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4732766] [accessed 20 November 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 November 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4733249] [accessed 20 November 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font at the back, under the gallery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph by Janice Tostevin
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14441THO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: Norman building; inside, medieval paintings and a medieval retable originally from Thetford Priory
Church Address: Bull Road, Thornham Parva, Suffolk IP23 8ES
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A140, just N of Thornam Magna, 3 km W of Eye
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Hartismere [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Thornham [Parva] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TM1072/thornham-parva/] [accessed 20 November 2016], one of which mentions "0.8 churches. 0.08 church lands." in it. Parker (1855) writes: "Font, E[arly] E[nglish], with an octagonal bowl." Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin decorated with varied tracery motifs on its sides; raised on a plain octagonal stem and a moulded lower base; the octagonal plinth may be of a later date, perhaps modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janice Tostevin for her photograph of this font, and to Robert Wilkes for his drawing of the church exterior
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 369993 5797389
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.311423, 1.092899
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 18′ 41.12″ N, 1° 5′ 34.43″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: low pyramidal octagonal, turned knob/finial; modern
REFERENCES
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]