Barningham / Bernicham / Bernincham / Berningham

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 April 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/barningham.htm] [accessed 2 November 2009]

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design element - patterns - tracery - varied

Scene Description: on the north, northwest and wesr sides of the basin

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 April 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/barningham.htm] [accessed 2 November 2009]

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design element - patterns - tracery - varied

Scene Description: on the east, northeast and sides of the basin

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2011

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 26 October 2011 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2666695] [accessed 8 November 2019]

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view of basin and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2011

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 26 October 2011 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2666695] [accessed 8 November 2019]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2011

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 26 October 2011 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2666731] [accessed 8 November 2019]

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view of font and cover - northeast side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2011 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2666695] [accessed 8 November 2019]

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view of font cover

Scene Description: 17thC cover?

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2011

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 26 October 2011 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2666695] [accessed 8 November 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15635BAR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: 5 Church Gardens, Barningham, Bury Saint Edmunds IP31 1DE, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off the B1111, 20 km NE of Bury St. Edmunds
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Blackburn
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font
There are three entries for this Barningham in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TL9676/barningham/] [accessed 8 November 2019], one of which reports "1 church. 0.12 church lands" in it. Parker (1855) writes: "Font, D[ecorated], octagonal in shape". The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TL9678576892] notes: "Parish church. C14 and later; restored 1877. [...] C14 octagonal font on a low base with various traceried panels around the bowl." Illustrated in Knott (2008). The font consists of an octagonal basin decorated with varied tracery on the sides, and with graded mouldings on the underbowl; raised on a plain octagonal pedestal base. The wooden cover has a box-like base and crocketed vertical ribs on it; 17th-century?

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.3553, 0.889
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 21′ 19.08″ N, 0° 53′ 20.4″ E
UTM: 31U 356237 5802654

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-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]. Accessed: 2009-11-02 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855