Tannington nr. Framlingham / Tantintuna

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 16

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/tannington.html] [accessed 23 October 2009]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Ethelbert Church, Tannington"

Image Source: digital photograph 11 May 2010 by Geographer [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1900679] [accessed 2 June 2024]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "The interior of St Ethelbert Church. Off Church Road. Tannington, Suffolk"

Image Source: digital photograph 11 May 2010 by Geographer [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1900691] [accessed 2 June 2024]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/tannington.html] [accessed 23 October 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Ethelbert Church Font. Off Church Road"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 11 May 2010 by Geographer [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1900684] [accessed 2 June 2024]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15577TAN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Ethelred

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Ethelred

Church Location: 1 Church Corner, Tannington, Woodbridge IP13 7LU, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1986 798136

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 7 km NW of Framlingham, 10 km NE of Debenham, 16 km SE of Diss

Historical Region: Hundred of Bishp's [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font

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There is an entry for this Tannington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM2467/tannington/] [accessed 2 June 2024]; it reports " in it. Noted in Parker (1855) as a plain octagonal font; no date suggested, though the church itself is Norman to Decorated. Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble. Illustrated in Knott (2001, 2007). The font, located at the west end of the nave, is probably a composite object made up of a 13th-century octagonal basin with pairs of blind pointed arches on its sides, precariously raised on an unlikely slender pedestal stem and a modern octagonal plinth. The type of basin here is meant to be supported on a central shaft and angle colonnettes; the stem now supporting it must have belonged to a different object in its former function.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.26034, 1.2841

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 15′ 37.22″ N, 1° 17′ 2.76″ E

UTM: 31U 382891 5791382

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-10-23 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.

Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855