Fakenham Magna / Great Fakenham
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 1999?
Standing permission
Results: 4 records
BU01: design element - motifs - floral - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 1999?
Image Source: photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/fakenham.htm] [accessed 2 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
UB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 1999?
Image Source: photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/fakenham.htm] [accessed 2 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
UB02: design element - motifs - floral
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 1999?
Image Source: photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/fakenham.htm] [accessed 2 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 1999?
Image Source: photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/fakenham.htm] [accessed 2 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15636FAK
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century [re-cut?], Medieval [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17526951
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A1088, 6 km SE of Thetford, 13 km NE of Bury St. Edmunds
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Additional Comments: altered font? Re-cut?
Font Notes:
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Parker (1855) notes an octagonal font with a plain basin. Noted and illustrated in Knott (1999?) as a medieval font re-cut. The octagonal basin has plain sides but has floral motifs on the underbowl chamfer; floral motifs and mouldingds decorate the octagonal pedestal base. The wooden cover is an octagonal pyramid with crocketed arrises and a floral finial; could be 19th-century. [NB: the church and village of nearby Little Fakenham have completely disappeared]
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
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]