Horringer / Horingeserda / Horninggesherthe / Horningsherth / Horningsheath / Horrunges
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 April 2012 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2924426] [accessed 2 January 2019]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/2418738118/] [accessed 1 June 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
symbol - shield - coat of arms - 8
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/2418738118/] [accessed 1 June 2009]
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/2418738118/] [accessed 1 June 2009]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 October 2014 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4231792] [accessed 2 January 2020]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 October 2014 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4231787] [accessed 2 January 2020]
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view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 October 2014 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4231750] [accessed 2 January 2020]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: the font and cover are visible on the right side of the nave, towatds the back
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 October 2014 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4231762] [accessed 2 January 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/2418738118/] [accessed 1 June 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14760HOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: another heraldic font at nearby Barrow
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Leonard
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Leonard
Church Address: The St, Horringer, Bury Saint Edmunds IP29 5SA, UK -- Tel.: +44 1284 736839
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A143 [aka The Street], 4 km SW of Bury St. Edmund's town centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Thingoe
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Horringer [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TL8262/horringer/] [accessed 2 January 2020], one of which reports "1 church. 0.05 church lands" in it. Parker (1855) notes a font of the Perpendicular period in this church. Listed in Cautley (1982) as a baptismal font of the 15th century decorated with heraldic emblems. Knott (2008) illustrates this font and notes: "The medieval font has modern heraldic shields painted on it; repainted, but probably to the original configuration. They show shields of local pre-Reformation landed families". The village web site [http://www.horringer.suffolk.gov.uk/info/history.html] [accessed 1 June 2009] includes a set of historical notes by Eric Lucas in which the font is mentioned with a much earlier date: "The font is 13th century with painted shields of the Bury St Edmunds Abbey, and the Brooke, Gipps, Jermyn and Lucas families". The wooden cover consists of an octagnal base with foot-heigh sides decorated with angels and floral motifs, on which platform rises a rounded octagonal dome with plain sides; this cover is raised via a pulley; there is flat and simple round wooden cover as well.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Suffolk Churches, for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 340978 5788727
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.22598, 0.6717
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 13′ 33.53″ N, 0° 40′ 18.12″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: yes
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982, p. 67
- 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]