Shelland
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
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Results: 4 records
B01: design element - motifs - foliage
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 10 February 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/shelland.html] [accessed 29 October 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
BU01: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: probably a later re-cutting
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 February 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/shelland.html] [accessed 29 October 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: probably a later base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 February 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/shelland.html] [accessed 29 October 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font and cover at the west end of the nave; the font is from the earlier church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 February 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/shelland.html] [accessed 29 October 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15624SHE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of King Charles the Martyr
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave [originally from the earlier church]
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17539985
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A14, 6 km W of Stowmarket, near Harleston and Onehouse
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Additional Comments: altered font / re-cut basin on a later base
Font Notes:
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Described in Parker (1855) as an octagonal font "with shields on a panelled bowl" from the medieval church. Noted and illustrated in Knott (2008). The octagonal basin is covered in a variety of foliage motifs, the lower end of the underbowl chamfer moulded; octagonal pedestal base, and moulded lower base of the same shape; on an octagonal plinth. The basin appears to have been re-cut, and the pedestal base is probably of a much later date. The wooden cover is of the Ogee dome type, probably 19th-century.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
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]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]