Brettenham / Brettenham nr. Bildestone
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view of font and cover
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design element - patterns - crenellated
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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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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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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 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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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 - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: on the splaying lower 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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INFORMATION
Font ID: 14737BRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Church Road, Brettenham, Suffolk, IP7 7QR
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6 km NNW of Bildestone, 13 WSW of Stowmarket
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Suffolk Churches, www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 354538 5779949
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.150855, 0.873852
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 9′ 3.08″ N, 0° 52′ 25.87″ E
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, p. 66
- Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]