Gipping

Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2009
Standing permission
Results: 6 records
BBU01: design element - motifs - moulding
BU01: design element - motifs - floral - square flower - 8
BU02: design element - motifs - moulding
LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
R01: design element - motifs - moulding
INFORMATION
FontID: 15450GIP
Church/Chapel: Chapel of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 5 km NNE of Stowmarket
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century / 16th century, Early English? / Renaissance?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janice Tostevin for the photographs of this font.
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Parker (1855) notes "Font, early, with a plain circular bowl". Knott (2009) writes: "The font is easily dismissed, but its shape, on the eve of the Reformation, already speaks of the rumblings on the continent that would flower as the Renaissance". The moulded round basin has an octagonal underbowl with a square flower on each side, and mouldings below; raised on an octagonal stem and lower base, the latter moulded as well. The innder well of the basin is lead-lined. Is this the font Parker saw? Was it re-cut since?
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
REFERENCES
Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-10-04 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855