Bacton / Bacton nr. Stowmarket
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
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Results: 11 records
B01: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - blank
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2009 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk]
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B02: symbol - shield - hanging shield - blank
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B03: design element - motifs - floral
Scene Description: roses? large ones occupying some of the panels
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2009 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk]
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B04: blank
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Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2009 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk]
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B05: design element - motifs - floral - square flower
Scene Description: tiny ones, on some of the sides of the basin panels, especially those with the hanging blank shields
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2009 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk]
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BU01: angel - cherub - 8
Scene Description: two of them, at the angles of the uncarved side, are unfinished
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2009 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk]
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UB01: design element - motifs - floral
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 7 July 2009 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk]
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UB02: symbol - shield - hanging shield - blank
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 7 July 2009 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk]
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 7 July 2009 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2009 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the font in the foreground, towards the north aisle
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2009 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 15558BAC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Cognate Fonts: many such in East Anglia
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Church Road, Bacton, Suffolk IP14 4LW
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 8 km N of Stowmarket
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Font Notes:
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Described in Parker (1855): "Font, P[erpendicular], an octagon with panelled bowl". Illustrated in Knott (2009). The font consists of an octagonal basin decorated with deeply-carved panels on seven of the sides (hanging shield, two (?) demi-angels holding shields, two (?) floral motifs, etc.); the eighth side is blank, uncarved, on both the basin and the pedestal base, which must indicate that the font was originally intended to go against the wall or a pillar; the underbowl is decorated with eight cherubs at the angles, their wings spreading on the chamfered sides; the octagonal pedestal base has floral motifs and hanging shields on the sides, the angles prominent with nuttresses; plain splaying lower base, also octagonal. The wooden font cover is octagonal and flat, of two thin volumes, with a twisted-metal ring-handle; modern. The uncarved side of the basin has an insert-stone repair at the upper rim, the area probably damaged by the old cover anchors.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of church and font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 363503 5791841
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.2646, 1.0074
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
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]