Little Wenham / Wenham Parva
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church interior - painting
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Brokentako, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2009 by Brokentaco [www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/4181720675/] [accessed 30 September 2011]
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view of church interior - painting
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Brokentako, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2009 by Brokentaco [www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/4181720855/] [accessed 30 September 2011]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - painting
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Brokentako, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2009 by Brokentaco [www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/4182482664/] [accessed 30 September 2011]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15607WEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century [restored], Medieval [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints [aka St. Lawrence's]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints [the dedication to St. Lawrence is not official]
Church Notes: 13th-century wall paintings inside
Church Address: Church Lane, Little Wenham, Ipswich, Suffolk, CO7 6PU
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just NW of Capel St. Mary, 10 km S of Ipswich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Additional Comments: altered font? painted font (the present font) -- disappeared font? (the earlier font of the 13thC?)
Font Notes:
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Parker (1855) reports a "modern and tasteless" font in this church. The present font is described in the English Heritage list entry for Little Wenham [http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1033410] [accessed 30 September 2011]: "Font, C14 much restored, simple octagonal stem with central drum and hexagonal angle columns, traces of red paint to original work". The large basin has plain vertical sides; there is a moulding at the underbowl; tha traces of paint are on the basin sides and on the outer colonnettes of the base; the broad central shaft is unpainted; the octagonal plinth is modern. [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of the font of the 13th-century church].
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 364862 5764192
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.0119, 1.0309
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 0′ 42.84″ N, 1° 1′ 51.24″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]