Kelsale

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B01: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant

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B02: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem

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B03: Christ - Agnus Dei?

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B04: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem

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B05: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant

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B06: angel - holding shield - coat of arms - Bishop of Ely?

Scene Description: three crowns [cf. Font notes]

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B07: animal - fabulous animal or monster - griffin?

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B08: angel - demi-figure - holding shield

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BU01: angel - cherub - head - 8

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UB01: animal - mammal - lion - sejant - 4

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UB02: design element - architectural - buttress - pinnacled - 4

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2009 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15032KEL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Peter

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Peter

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located just N of Saxmunham, now part of is suburbs

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font / heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janice Tostevin for the photograph of this font

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Baptismal font of the East Anglia type; the octagonal basin has four demi-angels holding charged shields (one has the three crowns emblem of the Bishop of Ely; another has three chalices; the other two are two worn to discern the emblem; in the other four panels are: a lion sedente-regardant, a reclining lamb (Lamb of God?), another lion like the first but more deeply carved, and a griffin (?); the underbowl has the usual angel heads; the stem has four sedente lions alternating with pinnacled buttresses.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.233177, 1.495409

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 13′ 59.44″ N, 1° 29′ 43.47″ E

UTM: 31U 397249 5788040

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: plain, flat and round; appears modern