Cowlinge / Cowling

Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Standing permission
Results: 5 records
B01: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - 8
BU01: design element - motifs - floral
UB01: design element - patterns - tracery
view of church exterior - northeast view
view of church interior - nave - west end
INFORMATION
FontID: 15647COW
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret of Antioch
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off the A143, 3 km NW of Stradishall, towards the Cambridgeshire border
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this church and font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Noted in Parker (1855) as a Perpendicular font. Described in the Bansfield Benefice web site http://www.bansfieldbenefice.org.uk/cowlinge/history/interior.html] [accessed 3 November 2009]: "The font dates from about 1400. It stands at the west end, near the entrance […] Its octagonal bowl has quatrefoils […] designs) with a flower at the centre of each. More flowers appear on the underside of the bowl, and the stem has two-light traceried panels above quatrefoils." Illustrated in context in Knott (2007?)
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
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