Cowlinge / Cowling
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Standing permission
Results: 5 records
B01: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken [in 2007?] by Simon Knott http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/cowlinge.htm] [accessed 3 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
BU01: design element - motifs - floral
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken [in 2007?] by Simon Knott http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/cowlinge.htm] [accessed 3 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
UB01: design element - patterns - tracery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken [in 2007?] by Simon Knott http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/cowlinge.htm] [accessed 3 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken [in 2007?] by Simon Knott http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/cowlinge.htm] [accessed 3 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - west end
Scene Description: the font, gallery and west door
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken [in 2007?] by Simon Knott http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/cowlinge.htm] [accessed 3 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15647COW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Margaret of Antioch
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17526918
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A143, 3 km NW of Stradishall, towards the Cambridgeshire border
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Font Notes:
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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?)
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this church and font
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]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]