Bentley / Benetleia / Bentley in Ipswich

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Source caption: "St Mary Bentley. The parish church of St Mary Bentley, Suffolk."
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary Bentley. The parish church of St Mary Bentley, Suffolk."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Keith Evans, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2013 by Keith Evans [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3680096] [accessed 15 December 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

INFORMATION

Font ID: 15603BEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [base only] -- 15th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Church Road, Bentley, Suffolk, IP9 2DA, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 7904 972116
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A12, 8-9 km SW of Ipswich (dir. Colchester)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Samford
Additional Comments: composite font / altered font -- disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
There is an entry for this Bentley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [www.domesdaybook.co.uk/suffolk1.html] [accessed 15 December 2014]; it reports a church in it. Parker (1855) notes: "The base of the font is early, the bowl, P[erpendicular], with angels in the panels of the bowl; one panel contains the Virgin and Saviour". English Heritage [Listing NGR: TM1186038142] (1955) reports: "Probably C15 octagonal font, panelled with carved virgin and child, angels with shields, 2 flowers and interlocked eternity rings. Octagonal stem, symbols of the 4 Evangelists at angles alternating with buttresses with moulded capitals and bases. Square base." Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble, Polygonal I Type (Octagonal): "disused" [source given: Pevsner] [NB: does Leach entry refer to the base of the font?]

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 368544 5762925
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.0014, 1.085
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 0′ 5.04″ N, 1° 5′ 6″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble) [base only]
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

  • Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975, p. 76
  • Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]