Great Bealings / Belinges
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design element - architectural - arcade - pointed arches - blind
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St.Mary's Church, Great Bealings"
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "St.Mary's Church, Great Bealings"
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "St.Mary's Church Font, Great Bealings"
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INFORMATION
FontID: 15538BEA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Bealings Ln, Great Bealings, Woodbridge IP13 6PB, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1473 735565
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located E of the A12, 4 km W of Woodbridge, 10 km NE of Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Carlford [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Century and Period: 13th century, Transitional / Early English
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for [Great] Bealings in the Domesday survey [variant spelling] [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM2348/great-bealings/] [accessed 21 February 2023], one of which reports "1 church. 0.16 church lands" in it; the priest in 1086 is identified as "Anund" in a plaque inside the church. Parker (1855) writes: "The font is early; an octagon, with slightly sunk panels in the bowl, and standing on round legs." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TM2309548864] notes: "Octagonal C13 font with shallow, paired, recessed arches to each face of the bowl. Central, circular shaft, also 8 subsidiary shafts to the angles which may be of later date." Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble, Polygonal I Type (Octagonal): no details [source given: Mr. C. Beardmore Smith].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.0931, 1.2554
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 5′ 35.16″ N, 1° 15′ 19.44″ E
UTM: 31U 380485 5772829
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with cross finial; modern
REFERENCES
Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855