Fressingfield / Fessefelda / Freshingfield / Frisingfeld
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Peter and St Paul’s Church, Fressingfield. Off Church Street"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Geographer, 2008
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 28 December 2008 by Geographer [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1095875] [accessed 18 December 2022]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "The parish church of St Peter and St Paul, Fressingfield, Suffolk"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Keith Evans, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 12 September 2013 by Keith Evans [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3657197] [accessed 18 December 2022]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Peter and St Paul's church Fressingfield Suffolk"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph 16 March 2007 by David [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Peter_and_St_Paul's_church_Fressingfield_Suffolk_(440578750).jpg] [accessed 18 December 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 15574FRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Location: Church St, Fressingfield, Eye IP21 5PE, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1379 388493
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B1116 [aka Laxfield Rd], 7-8 km S of Harleston, 11 km ENE of Eye, 19 km ESE of Diss
Historical Region: Hundred of Bishop's [in Domesday] / East Anglia
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Medieval
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Fressingfield [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM2677/fressingfield/] [accessed 18 December 2022]; it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Parker (1855) reports a plain octagonal font in this church. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TM2615577483] notes: "Parish church. Medieval; restored 1870 and 1888 [...] Early C14 square tower [...] C15 aisles [...] Fine south porch of c1420 with C19 restoration [...] Early C14 chancel, considerably restored in C19 [...] Plain octagonal font of medieval date." The font consists of three very differentiated volumes, all octagonal in shape: basin, pedestal base and lightly splaying lower base. The wooden cover is octagonal with metal decoration and ring handle atop, fitted onto the upper rim of the basin.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.346824, 1.317738
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 20′ 48.56″ N, 1° 19′ 3.86″ E
UTM: 31U 385411 5800946
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855