Burstall / Burgestala / Burghestala
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
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Results: 8 records
design element - architectural - buttress - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken in April 2007 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/burstall.html] [accessed 27 October 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken in April 2007 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/burstall.html] [accessed 27 October 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken in April 2007 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/burstall.html] [accessed 27 October 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Mary's church, Burstall"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul Farmer, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph 26 June 2010 by Paul Farmer [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1933900] [accessed 27 June 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5
view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary's church in Burstall. View east."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 26 January 2012 by Evelyn Simak [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2780985] [accessed 27 June 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5
view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary's church in Burstall. View west."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 26 January 2012 by Evelyn Simak [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2780995] [accessed 27 June 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken in April 2007 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/burstall.html] [accessed 27 October 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary's church in Burstall. Medieval baptismal font."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 26 January 2012 by Evelyn Simak [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2780999] [accessed 27 June 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5
INFORMATION
FontID: 15604BUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 1 Church Hill, Burstall, Ipswich IP8 3DU, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off the A1071, 6 km W of Ipswich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Sandford [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font
Font Notes:
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There are five entries for Burstall in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM0944/burstall/] [accessed 27 June 2024], one of which reports "1 church. 0.21 church lands" in it. Described in Parker (1855): "The font is early; an octagonal bowl, with a round pedestal on four octagon legs". The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TM0971644579] notes: "Parish church. Largely early C14, C15, restored 1866, and 1870-1873 [...] Font, octagonal, with four recessed flat panels, octagonal base, four plain octagonal shafts and one central round stem." Illustrated in Knott (2007) with somewhat different look: the octagonal basin rests on a central shaft made of blocks, and the outer colonnettes appear round, not octagonal ; the whole is raised on an octagonal lower base and modern polygonal plinth; not clear how much of the supporting base is modern. The wooden cover is an octagonal pyramid, the lower part crown-like, probably Victorian. The decoration on the basin is simple, mouldings at both ends and a set of eight (?) thin buttresses around the sides.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.05957, 1.0577
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 3′ 34.45″ N, 1° 3′ 27.72″ E
UTM: 31U 366843 5769444
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak?
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: 2009-10-27 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855