Mildenhall nr. Newmarket / Midelhale / Mildenehalla / Mindenehall
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2015 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4672151] [accessed 2 January 2020]
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view of font - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2018
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 28 July 2018 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5847704] [accessed 2 January 2020]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2018 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5847699] [accessed 2 January 2020]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 June 2009 by Janice Tostevin
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/mildenhallcofe.htm] [accessed 1 June 2009]
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view of basin - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2018 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5847706] [accessed 2 January 2020]
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symbol - shield - coat of arms - unidentified
![the one on the left appears to have the cross of St. George; the one on the right appears to bear the saltire of St. Andrew [cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1090729011_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the one on the left appears to have the cross of St. George; the one on the right appears to bear the saltire of St. Andrew [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 June 2009 by Janice Tostevin
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symbol - shield - in a quatrefoil - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 June 2009 by Janice Tostevin
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2018
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 28 July 2018 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5847666] [accessed 2 January 2020]
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view of church interior - north aisle - ceiling - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Mildenhall, St. Mary and St. Andrew's Church: Superlative carving in the north aisle roof"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2018 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5847740] [accessed 2 January 2020]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Mildenhall, St. Mary and St. Andrew's Church: The Perpendicular nave"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2018 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5847671] [accessed 2 January 2020]
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view of church interior - east side - window
Scene Description: Source caption: "Mildenhall, St. Mary and St. Andrew's Church: The magnificent Decorated east window"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2018 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5847717] [accessed 2 January 2020]
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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 June 2009 by Janice Tostevin
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 14766MIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: The Churchyard / High St, Mildenhall, Bury Saint Edmunds IP28 7EE, UK -- Tel.: +44 1638 711 930
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B1102, S of the A11, 16 km NE of Newmarket
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Lackford
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church)
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for Mildenhall [varied spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TL7174/mildenhall/] [accessed 2 Januaty 2020], one of which reports "2 churches. 0.53 church lands" in it. Parker (1855) reports a Perpendicular font "with quatrefoils and shield" in this church, and remarks that the coat of arms on the font and on an altar-tomb that shares the font's plinth are the same. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TL7102674598] notes: "Church, medieval. [...] Vestry early C13, with rib-vaulted ceiling, lancets in north and triple lancet in west wall; further good features in south and east walls. Fine chancel arch, heavily moulded with keeled shafts, tooth ornament and stiff-leaf capitals. The chancel was extended early C14 [...] Early C15 panelled octagonal Purbeck marble font." Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble [polygonal II type]; "bowl with shield in the centres of quatrefouil panels on each face." Listed in Cautley (1982) in a group of 15th-century heraldic fonts in Suffolk. Illustrated in Knott (2007); the font consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with blank (?) shields inscribed in quatrefoils, raised on an octagonal pedestal with trefoiled panels on the sides, and a moulded lower base. On an octagonal plinth.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, and to Janice Tostevin, for their photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 330299 5802070
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.342636, 0.508789
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 20′ 33.49″ N, 0° 30′ 31.64″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Notes: flat and plain
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.
- Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975, p. 79
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]