Wetherden

Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
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Results: 20 records
B01: design element - motifs - floral - in a panel - cinquefoiled panel
B02: symbol - shield - emblem - St. George - in a cinquefoil
B03: design element - motifs - floral - in a panel - cinquefoiled panel
B04: symbol - shield - emblem - unidentified - in a cinquefoil panel
B05: design element - motifs - floral - in a panel - cinquefoiled panel
B06: symbol - shield - emblem - unidentified - in a cinquefoil panel
B07: design element - motifs - floral - in a panel - cinquefoiled panel
B08: symbol - shield - emblem - See of Ely? - in a cinquefoil panel
BU01: human figure - grotesque or fantastic - faun?
BU02: human figure - grotesque or fantastic - faun?
BU03: human figure - head - wearing hat - flat hat
BU04: human figure - grotesque or fantastic - faun?
BU05: human figure - grotesque or fantastic - faun?
BU06: human figure - grotesque or fantastic - faun?
BU07: human figure - grotesque or fantastic - faun?
BU08: human figure - grotesque or fantastic - faun?
BU09: design element - motifs - moulding - graded
LB01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded
UB01: design element - motifs - panel - trefoiled - 8
INFORMATION
FontID: 15626WET
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 6 km NW of Stowmarket
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 15th century [restored], Perpendicular [altered?]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janice Tostevin for her photographs of, and information on this font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described in Parker (1855): "The font, good P[erpendicular], panelled with alternate shields." Noted in the National Gazetteer of 1868) as "an antique font" in this church. The British Listed Buildings website [http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-280694-church-of-st-mary-the-virgin-wetherden] [accessed 25 June 2010] notes: "C15 octagonal limestone font bearing shields on the bowl, much restored; C17 oak pyramid cover." Cinquefoil-headed panels with a variety of motifs in the spandrels (oak leaves, trefoils, etc.); inside the panels four shields charged with emblems, alternating with four floral panels; the underbowl decorated with graded moulding, human heads at the corners (seven of them are of mythical: fauns (?), the eighth is fully human, wearing a flat round hat); octagonal stem decorated with trefoiled-headed blind panels; the lower base, also octagonal and decorated with graded mouldings. The font is very much restored, with many new-stone inserts. The church notes record that the font was moved to its present position at the junction of the nave and the aisle to allow for the placing of the organ.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Basin Total Height: 42.5 cm*
Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: 29.5 x 37 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 117.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [measurements courtesy of Bob & Janice Tostevin]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century?
Material:
wood,
oak
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855