Trimley St. Martin
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Image Source: photograph in the CRSBI [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-sf-triml.html] [accessed 21 October 2009]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 14734TRI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located near [now a suburb of] Felixtowe
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the N transept
Century and Period: 12th century [re-cut], Norman [altered]
Font Notes:
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Parker (1855) reports a modern font in this church, but Cautley (1982) lists a baptismal font of the 12th century in it. The CRSBI (2008) remarks that "the only feature that may be Romanesque is the font", and notes that "The bowl has vertical claw-chisel tooling on its faces and chamfer, and this is apparently modern, as is the cutting of the zigzag decoration […] The font bowl may be a completely plain 12thc. bowl that has been retooled and decorated in the 19thc. The supports and base may also be original" [NB: the Church of St. Mary stands in the same churchyard; there is no reported font for this church, which may have been built in the 13th century]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Diameter (inside rim): 43 cm*
Basin Total Height: 25 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 75 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 61 x 61 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: 2009-10-21 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.