Brandon / Brandon nr. Thetford / Brandona
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: forming the capitals and beses of the colonnettes of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph by Simon knott [http://www.simonknott.co.uk/suffolkchurches/brandoncofe.htm] [accessed 25 May 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Peter's parish church, Brandon, Suffolk, seen from north-northeast"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph 30 September 2008 by David [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Peter's_church_Brandon_Suffolk_(2956076120).jpg] [accessed 16 June2024]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St. Peter, Brandon"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sandy Gerrard, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 6 September 2023 by Sandy Gerrard [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7690216] [accessed 15 June 2024]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Peter, Brandon - East end"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 17 December 2015 by John Salmon [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4767491] [accessed 16 June 2024]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Peter, Brandon - Font"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 17 December 2015 by John Salmon [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4767505] [accessed 16 June 2024]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph by Simon knott [http://www.simonknott.co.uk/suffolkchurches/brandoncofe.htm] [accessed 25 May 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 14736BRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Location: 8 Church End, Brandon IP27 0JE, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off road A1065, 8-9 km WNW of Thetford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Lackford [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for the photograph of this font
Font Notes:
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There are two entried for this Brandon in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TL7886/brandon/] [accessed 16june 2024], one of which reports "1 church. 0.25 church lands" in it.
Parker (1855) notes: "Font, good E[arly] E[nglish], on an octagon stem, with eight detached shafts." Listed in Cautley (1982) as a baptismal font of the 13th century, the columns of the base decorated with capitals and bases. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TL7770786173] notes: "Medieval, restored 1873 [...] Font of c.1300 with plain octagonal bowl and stem and 8 supporting detached shafts with moulded caps and bases." Illustrated in Knott (2008) who quotes Mortlock on the artist of the modern font cover: Reeve of Lawshall. The font consists of an octagonal basin of plain vertical sides, raised on a central shaft, and eight angle colonnettes decorated with moulded capitals and bases; it is raised on a wide round plinth. The wooden cover consists of a box-like octagonal platform on which is a scene of Baptism.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.4446, 0.613284
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 26′ 40.56″ N, 0° 36′ 47.82″ E
UTM: 31U 337791 5813169
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982
Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-05-25 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855