East Bergholt
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Standing permission
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2009 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/eastbergholt.htm] [accessed 27 October 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 15605BER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: The Street, East Bergholt, Suffolk, CO7 6TA
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 13 km S of Ipswich, 16 km N of Colchester, just N of the Essex border [NB: West Bergholt is in Essex]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of the modern font
Church Notes: church has a detached bell cage in which "the headstock is manipulated by hand by ringers standing right beside the bells" [source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Bergholt [accessed 30 Sept 2011]]
Font Notes:
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Parker (1855) notes a modern font in this otherwise Perpendicular church. Illustrated in Knott (2009) who describes it as "a Victorian curiosity, very like that at Stratford St. Mary". The modern font is octagonal with deeply-set panels decorated with a variety of symbols, the underbowl and pedestal base moulded. The wooden cover, probably contemporary, is crown-like, with carved sides and low crocketed ribs supporting a statue finial [St. Mary?] [NB: the fabric of the church goes back to the 15th century, but we have no information on the whereabouts of the original font].
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 363783 5760215
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
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: 2009-10-27 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855