Great Livermere / Livermere Magna

Image copyright © John Salmon, 2012
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Results: 10 records
design element - motifs - moulding
design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Scene Description: notice the damage at the upper rim, left side, where the old cover staple was removed
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 February 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/gliver.htm] [accessed 3 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - patterns - tracery - varied
Scene Description: on seven of the sides of the octagonal basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 February 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/gliver.htm] [accessed 3 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil
Scene Description: on one of the sides of the octagonal basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 February 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/gliver.htm] [accessed 3 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
view of church exterior - southeast view
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of church interior - nave - looking west
view of font and cover - west side
Scene Description: the font and cover photographed from beneath the tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 October 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3127580] [accessed 6 December 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover in context
INFORMATION
FontID: 15641LIV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter [Parker (1855) has St. Paul]
Church Location: 21 Park Gates, Great Livermere IP31 1JR
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 6 km NE of Bury St. Edmunds
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Thedwastre [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 14th century (late?), Decorated
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this font
Font Notes:
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There are four entries for [Great] Livermore in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL8871/great-livermere/] [accessed 6 December 2016] one of which mentions a church and church lands in it. Parker (1855) reports "a panelled octagonal font" of the late Decorated period. Illustrated in Knott (2008). The octagonal basin has a variety of tracery patterns on the sides, one of which is a blank shield in a quatrefoil; graded mouldings on the underbowl chamfer; octagonal stem and moulded lower base of the same shape; raised on an octagonal plinth with kneeling extension. The wooden cover is an octagonal low dome of two volumes, the lower one has arcades carved on the sides; ball-and-cross finial; appears modern. [NB: located nearby is the ruined church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Little Livermere/Livermere Parva -- no information available on its font]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.309248, 0.763649
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 18′ 33.29″ N, 0° 45′ 49.13″ E
UTM: 31U 347543 5797790
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
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: 2009-11-03 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855