Wattisfield / Watefelda / W[a]telesfelda / Watesfelda
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
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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symbol - shield - blank - 8
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
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
angel - cherub - 8
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
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 - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Keith Evans, 2010
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 church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrian Cable, 2016
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 font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
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
design element - motifs - tracery
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
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
Font ID: 14773WAT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, S side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Address: The Street, Wattisfield, Diss IP22 1NS, UK
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 31U 360413 5800073
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.333188, 0.951347
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 19′ 59.48″ N, 0° 57′ 4.85″ E
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, p. 87
- 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]