Brettenham / Brettenham nr. Bildestone
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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8
Scene Description: on the stem of the base
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 February 2008 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/brettenham.htm] [accessed 25 May 2009]
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design element - architectural - arch-head - trefoiled - crocketed - 8
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design element - architectural - buttress - 8
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design element - motifs - moulding
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: on the splaying lower base
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design element - patterns - crenellated
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 February 2008 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/brettenham.htm] [accessed 12 March 2013]
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view of church interior - chancel and nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font and cover at the west end of the nave
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view of font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 February 2008 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/brettenham.htm] [accessed 25 May 2009]
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view of font and cover
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view of font cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 February 2008 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/brettenham.htm] [accessed 25 May 2009]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 14737BRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church Road, Brettenham, Suffolk, IP7 7QR
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 6 km NNW of Bildestone, 13 WSW of Stowmarket
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Suffolk Churches, www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this church and font
Font Notes:
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Described in Parker (1855): "Font, good D[ecorated]; an octagon, with trefoils under canopies". Noted in Cautley (1982) as a baptismal font of the 14th century; fonts of this type in the county at Buxhall, Chelsworth, Walsham-le-Willows, as well as the best fonts of the period at Hemingstone, Kessingland, Wortham, Wickham Market and Rattesden. The wooden font cover consists of an octagonal base decorated with six quatrefoil motifs on each side, the upper rim crenellated, on which an octagonal pyramid with crocketed arrises; large vegetal finial.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.150855, 0.873852
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 9′ 3.08″ N, 0° 52′ 25.87″ E
UTM: 31U 354538 5779949
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
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