Withersfield / Urdresfeldra / Wedresfelda

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coat of arms - unidentified

Scene Description: one of five [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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coat of arms - unidentified

Scene Description: one of five [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

coat of arms - unidentified

Scene Description: one of five [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

coat of arms - unidentified

Scene Description: one of five [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

coat of arms - unidentified

Scene Description: one of five [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - pointed quatrefoil

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle - in a quatrefoil - pointed quatrefoil

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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symbol - star - in a circle - in a quatrefoil - cusped or pointed quatrefoil

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 August 2019 by Poliphilo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary,_Withersfield_01.jpg] [accessed 8 November 2019]

Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero

view of stoup in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/withersfield.htm] [accessed 4 November 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 15656WIT

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Church St, Withersfield, Haverhill CB9 7SG, UK -- Tel.: +44 1440 820288

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A1307, NW of Haverhill, SE of Cambrisge

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich

Historical Region: Hundred of Risbridge

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, just E of the tower arch

Century and Period: 15th - 16th century[re-carved?], Perpendicular [altered?]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janice Tostevin for her photographs of the font, and to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of the holy-water stoup in this church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for Withersfield [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TL6547/withersfield/] [accessed 8 November 2019] none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Parker (1855) notes: "The font is octagonal, with shields in the panels". Tyms (1874) writes: "The font is octagonal, having three of its panels enriched by geometrical tracery, and the five others charged with shields, bearing-- 1, a pall. 2, a chevron between three trefoils slipped. 3, a mullet of six points within a border, charged with eight (?) paterae. 4, quarterly-- 1, a patera (Davy calls it a lozenge in a square); 2, a rose; 3 and 4, a chessrook or mill rind. 5, quarterly-- 1, a mullet; 2, a rose; 3 and 4, checky. The delineations of these coats in Cole's MS. differ considerably from the shields as they now appear." Knott (2007?) illustrates and odd-looking holy-water stoup by the door ^NB: might it be an earlier font re-used; the church goes back to the 13th century. The present font is an octagonal vessel with five charged shields and three traceried panels on the sides of the basin [cf. supra], the pedestal base octagonal and moulded at both ends; on a plain octagonal plinth. The wooden cover is plain, round and flat; modern. The present font in the church does not appear medieval or late medieval, so it must have been drastically re-carved [cf. supra].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.1034, 0.41

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 6′ 12.24″ N, 0° 24′ 36″ E

UTM: 31U 322620 5775703

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

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]. Accessed: 2009-11-04 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.

Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855

Tymms, Samuel, "Withersfield Church", IV (1774, i.e., 1874], Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural History, 1874, pp. 107-110; r["References"]