Campsea Ash / Campsey Ash / Campess

Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Standing permission
Results: 5 records
B01: design element - patterns - tracery - varied - 8
BBU01: design element - patterns - crenellated
BU01: human figure - head - 8
UB01: design element - patterns - tracery
INFORMATION
FontID: 15587CAM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 2-3 km from Wickham Market
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described in Parker (1855): "octagonal font, with panelled pedestal and bowl". Illustrated in Knott (2008). The octagonal basin has a crenellated upper rim, the sides tapering below a thin moulding, decorated with a variet of tracery panels, including quatrefoils, tiny human heads at the angles of the underbowl; more tracery on the octagonal stem, and a moulded lower base that could be a later replacement, and a modern plinth. The wooden font cover is octagonal and flat; appears modern.
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
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.
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855