Wetherden
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Results: 20 records
B01: design element - motifs - floral - in a panel - cinquefoiled panel
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B02: symbol - shield - emblem - St. George - in a cinquefoil
Scene Description: fleurdelisee cross
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B03: design element - motifs - floral - in a panel - cinquefoiled panel
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B04: symbol - shield - emblem - unidentified - in a cinquefoil panel
Scene Description: three roses?
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B05: design element - motifs - floral - in a panel - cinquefoiled panel
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B06: symbol - shield - emblem - unidentified - in a cinquefoil panel
Scene Description: three shells?
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B07: design element - motifs - floral - in a panel - cinquefoiled panel
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B08: symbol - shield - emblem - See of Ely? - in a cinquefoil panel
Scene Description: three crowns
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken in June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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BU01: human figure - grotesque or fantastic - faun?
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BU02: human figure - grotesque or fantastic - faun?
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BU03: human figure - head - wearing hat - flat hat
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BU04: human figure - grotesque or fantastic - faun?
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BU05: human figure - grotesque or fantastic - faun?
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BU06: human figure - grotesque or fantastic - faun?
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BU07: human figure - grotesque or fantastic - faun?
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BU08: human figure - grotesque or fantastic - faun?
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BU09: design element - motifs - moulding - graded
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded
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UB01: design element - motifs - panel - trefoiled - 8
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 15626WET
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century [restored], Perpendicular [altered?]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17526366
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6 km NW of Stowmarket
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Additional Comments: altered font / restored font
Font Notes:
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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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janice Tostevin for her photographs of, and information on this font
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, [unpaged]