Cavenham
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
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BBL01: design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 2
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [http://www.simonknott.co.uk/suffolkchurches/cavenham.htm] [accessed 4 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [http://www.simonknott.co.uk/suffolkchurches/cavenham.htm] [accessed 4 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [http://www.simonknott.co.uk/suffolkchurches/cavenham.htm] [accessed 4 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15660CAV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17534872
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6 km SE of Mildenhall, 10 km W of Bury St. Edmunds
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Additional Comments: heavily whitewashed or plastered
Font Notes:
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Parker (1855) notes: "Font, solid; octagonal below, circular above". Knott (2007?) remarks: "At the west end of the church the font looks like a melted cheese; it is hard to tell if it is in its original configuration, or, indeed, if it was actually a font at all. A big clue that it was is that it has been heavily plastered over, as many fonts were in the later 16th century." The font has a circular basin with a double roll moulding towards the bottom, on a plain octagonal stem separarted from the octagonal base by another moulding. A wooden cover of octagonal pyramidal shape, but with only four straight ribs, tops the font.
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: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
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]