Walsham-le-Willows
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Results: 5 records
BBL01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - cinquefoiled arches - crocketed arches - 8
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Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/walsham.htm] [accessed 25 May 2009]
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BBU01: animal - fabulous animal or monster - head - 16
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/walsham.htm] [accessed 25 May 2009]
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BS01: design element - motifs - floral
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/walsham.htm] [accessed 25 May 2009]
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R01: design element - motifs - moulding
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Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/walsham.htm] [accessed 25 May 2009]
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/walsham.htm] [accessed 25 May 2009]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 14738WAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Early English
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17526239
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A143, 18 km NE of Bury St. Edmunds
Font Notes:
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Parker (1855) reports a fine octagonal font in this church. Noted in Cautley (1982) as a baptismal font of the 14th century; fonts of this type in the county at Brettenham, Buxhall and Chelsworth, as well as the best fonts of the period at Hemingstone, Kessingland, Wortham, Wickham Market and Rattesden. The octagonal basin has crocketed cinquefoil arch-heads on the lower basin sides, the crockets reaching all the way to below the rim; the spandrels have floral motifs; the upper rim has a flat moulding; below this moulding is a band that includes the upper crockets of the arch-heads, as well as tiny grotesque animal heads, two per side; the angles of the basin have crocketed buttresses; there are large heads at the angles of the underbowl, too damaged for identification although one appears to have a bishop's mitre' in between the heads the underbowl chamfer has graded mouldings; the octagonal base has pairs of trefoiled arches, with buttresses at the angles; the lower base is moulded.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Suffolk Churches, for his photographs of this font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
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]