Parham nr. Woodbridge/ Parham-Hatcheston / Perreham / Preham
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coat of arms - Ufford Earls of Suffolk
Scene Description: engrailed cross
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coat of arms - unidentified - 2
Scene Description: two of the three [cf. Font notes]
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design element - motifs - moulding
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design element - motifs - moulding
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design element - patterns - tracery - window tracery
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Keith Evans, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 27 March 2014 by Keith Evans [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3909973] [accessed 2 January 2020]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior of St Mary's Church, Parham. The windows to the nave and chancel of St Mary's Church are Perpendicular, as is the screen to the chancel. Most of the pews were replaced in the 19th century."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Marathon, 2016
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior of St Mary's Church, Parham. The windows to the nave and chancel of St Mary's Church are Perpendicular, as is the screen to the chancel."
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alan Thurkettle, 2009
Image Source: photograph by Alan Thurkettle in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk [accessed 26 October 2009]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the font by the south doorway -- the wooden cover appears to be upside down [cf. Image N091026001] -- one of the tracery panels may have had a Trinity emblem originally, but was recorded destroyed by Dowsing [cf. FontNotes]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 14767PAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Hall Rd, Parham, Woodbridge IP13 9AA, UK -- Tel.: +44 1473 737 280
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off the B1116, between Framlingham and Wickham Market, 12 km N of Woodbridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Parham
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of nave, N side oppotiste the S entrance
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church Notes: restored 1886
Font Notes:
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There are six entries for this Parham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM3060/parham/] [accessed 2 January 2020], one of church reports "1 church. 0.2 church lands" in it. Dowsing (1885) reports on his visit to this church in 1643/1644 and includes among his destructive endeavours "the representation of the Trinity on the Font [...] All to be done". Described in Parker (1855): "Font, D[ecorated], an octagon, with shields in three panels, and very delicate tracery in the remaing five." Listed in Cautley (1982) in a group of 15th-century heraldic fonts in Suffolk. Noted and illustrated in Knott (2007): "a veritable pattern book, also incorporating the shield of the Earls of Suffolk." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TM3095160507] notes: "Parish church. Medieval, the nave and tower probably late C14 [...] Early C15
octagonal font, the bowl carved with traceried panels and shields of the Ufford and Willoughby families."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.19456, 1.3778
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 11′ 40.42″ N, 1° 22′ 40.08″ E
UTM: 31U 389122 5783918
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, with a raised centre and acorn finial
REFERENCES
Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982
Dowsing, William, of Stratford, The Journal of William Dowsing, of Stratford, Parliamentary visitor, appointed under a warrant from the Earl of Manchester, for demolishing the superstitious pictures and ornaments of churches &c., within the County of Suffolk, in the years 1643-1644, Ipswich: Pawsey and Hayes, 1885
Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-06-01 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855