Wattisfield / Watefelda / W[a]telesfelda / Watesfelda

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angel - cherub - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 15 September 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/wattisfield.htm] [accessed 2 June 2009]

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design element - motifs - tracery

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 15 September 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/wattisfield.htm] [accessed 2 June 2009]

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symbol - shield - blank - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 15 September 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/wattisfield.htm] [accessed 2 June 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 July 2016 by Adrian Cable [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5062295] [accessed 31 December 2019]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 April 2010 by Keith Evans [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1818783] [accessed 31 December 2019]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of font and cover

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 September 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/wattisfield.htm] [accessed 2 June 2009]

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view of font cover

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 15 September 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/wattisfield.htm] [accessed 2 June 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 14773WAT

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret

Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]

Church Location: The Street, Wattisfield, Diss IP22 1NS, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located S of the A143 [aka Bury Rd], 12 km SW of Diss

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Edmundsbury & Ipswich

Historical Region: Hundred of Blackburn

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, S side

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for Wattisfield[variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM0174/wattisfield/] [accessed 31 December 2019], one of which reports "1 church. 0.1 church lands" in it. Parker (1855) mentions a good octagonal font in this church. Cautley (1982) describes the 17th-century cover as "charming". Both font and cover are noted and illustrated in Knott (2008): "The 17th Century font cover has eagle heads, which give it carachter, and the late medieval font beneath it has blank shields which were probably painted once"; all the sides of the octagonal basin have panels with plain shields; the underbowl chamfer is decorated with the usual cherubs; the octagonal stem has tracery on the sides; the lower base is octagonal and moulded. The cover is octagonal and pyramidal, the arrises decorated; very solid [NB: there is also a plain octagonal and flat font cover being used as well].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.333188, 0.951347

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 19′ 59.48″ N, 0° 57′ 4.85″ E

UTM: 31U 360413 5800073

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-century?

Material: wood,

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982

Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-06-02 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.

Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855