Langham nr. Bury St. Edmunds

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Source caption: "St Mary the Virgin, Langham. This remote church is accessed by a footpath across the private parkland of Langham Hall. As with many East Anglian churches, it is situated well away from the village, but close to the manor house."
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary the Virgin, Langham. This remote church is accessed by a footpath across the private parkland of Langham Hall. As with many East Anglian churches, it is situated well away from the village, but close to the manor house."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bob Jones, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 November 2009 by Bob Jones [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1586055] [accessed 14 June 2018]
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view of font and cover in context

no grotesque heads or shields visible in this photograph
Scene Description: no grotesque heads or shields visible in this photograph
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Ross & Britain Express Ltd, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken by David Ross [www.britainexpress.com/counties/essex/churches/langham.htm] [accessed 14 June 2018]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 14763LAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Langham, Bury Saint Edmunds IP31 3EE, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off (SE) the A143, 11 km NE of Bury St. Edmunds
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Blackburn
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
There are two entries for this Langham in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL9869/langham/] [accessed 14 June 2018] one of which mentions "1 church. 0.16 church lands" in it. Parker (1855) notes "a good P[erpendicular] font, panelled, with shields" in this church. Listed in Cautley (1982) in a group of 15th-century heraldic fonts in Suffolk. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TL9805669024] reports: "Fine octagonal C14 font, reminiscent of that at Badwell Ash: high base; shaft with trefoil panelling to each face; bowl with shields and grotesque faces alternating in ogee-headed panels; crenellated top."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.28377, 0.9017
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 17′ 1.57″ N, 0° 54′ 6.12″ E
UTM: 31U 356871 5794674

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, flat and plain; knob handle; modern

REFERENCES

Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855