Kersey No. 1
Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2009
Standing permission
Results: 4 records
B01: design element - motifs - piping
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2009 by Janice Tostevin
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2009 by Janice Tostevin
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font - upper view
Scene Description: note the blocked drain
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2009 by Janice Tostevin
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robert Wilkes, 2013
Image Source: drawing by Robert Wilkes
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15035KER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
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: Kersey, Suffolk, IP7 6EE
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Just off the A1071, just N of Hadleigh
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Additional Comments: discarded font / damaged font / restored font (to church in 1927)
Font Notes:
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'Old font of 12th century origin which was returned to the church in 1927 after use as a cottage doorstep' [source: local church notes]. What remains now is a fragment of the square basin, showing that the sides were originally slightly curved and decorated with thick piping or columns at the angles; the base is an amorphous piece, difficult to even guess at what its original shape was; the basin had a central drain but it now appears cemented over. [cf. Index entry for Kersey No. 2 for a font of the Decorated period listed for this church]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janice Tostevin for the information on and photographs of this font; we are also grateful to Robert Wilkes for his drawing of this church, received via his brother, John Wilkes
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 357344 5769483
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.057558, 0.919211
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 3′ 27.21″ N, 0° 55′ 9.16″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: now blocked