Rushmere St. Andrew

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the modern "mock Norman" font
Scene Description: the modern "mock Norman" font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken July 2007 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/rushmerestan.htm] [accessed 27 October 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 15542RUS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: The Street, Rushmere St Andrew, Suffolk, IP5 1DJ
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 8 km SW of Lowestoft
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of the modern font
Font Notes:
Parker (1855) reports a modern font in this late-medieval church. The modern font at St. Andrew's is noted in illustrated in Knott (2008), who describes it as "mock Norman". The modern font is a quadrangular block decorated with the anagram IHS in a circle on the front [east?] side, and sets of five dog-tooth motif at the angles. [NB: the south doorway of this church is dated to the mid-12th century, and there may have been a church here sinde the Domesday survey of 1086, but we have no information on the font of this church].

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 377507 5769886

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: initials
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on the front side
Inscription Text: "IHS"

REFERENCES

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2011-09-29 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-10-26 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.