Helmingham nr. Stowmarket
Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2013
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Results: 12 records
angel - cherub - head - 8
Scene Description: at the angles of the underbowl chamfer
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 5 September 2013 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3649746] [accessed 4 October 2013]
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angel - demi-figure - holding shield - coat of arms or emblem - unidentified - 4
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animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant - 4
Scene Description: facing right
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animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant - 4
Scene Description: raised on unusual pedestals that are made up of human heads, male and female
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design element - architectural - buttress - crocketed pinnacle - moulded base - 4
Scene Description: the pinnacles appear almost florid
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design element - motifs - floral - 8
Scene Description: on the sides of the upper underbowl chamfer
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design element - motifs - floral - rose - 8
Scene Description: on the sides of the lower underbowl chamfer
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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 40
Scene Description: five on each of the upper frames of the panels of the basin
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/helmingham.htm] [accessed 4 October 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/helmingham.htm] [accessed 4 October 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font ias visible at the far (west) end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/helmingham.htm] [accessed 4 October 2013]
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view of font and cover
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INFORMATION
FontID: 15545HEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Church of St. Mary [estate church]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Helmingham Road (B1077), Helmingham, Suffolk, IP14 6EQ
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located in the grounds of Helmingham Hall, at the B1077-B1079 crossroads, 20 km E of Stowmarket; 19 kn N of Ipswich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Claydon [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Bosmere
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Suffolk Churches [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church
Church Notes: two original churches in this Helmingham in Domesday survey; present church dates to the reign of Henry VI (1422-1461); restored in 1845
Font Notes:
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There are eight entries for this Helmingham in the Domesday Survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TM1957/helmingham/] [accessed 19 May 2017], two of which report a church and church lands in it. The present font here is noted in Parker (1855): "The font is octagonal, and fine P[erpendicular]." Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin deeply carved with sejant-gardant lions and charged shields on alternate sides; cherub heads at the underbowl angles and floral motifs on the sides at two levels; sejant-gardant lions and balusters on alternate sides of the octagonal stem; stands on a plain octagonal plinth. Appears to have been re-tooled or re-carved. The wooden cover is octagnal, flat and plain.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 10' 24" N, 1° 12' 8" E
UTM: 31U 377116 5781802
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855