Glemsford
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Results: 18 records
B01: design element - motifs - floral - square flower
Scene Description: on the frames around the surviving panels of the basin
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B02: cleric - bishop - head - wearing mitre
Scene Description: the face badly damaged
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B03: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - St. George
Scene Description: the cross on the shield partly erased
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B04: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion
![suggested identification [cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1100710021_compressed.png)
Scene Description: suggested identification [cf. Font notes]
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B05: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation?
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Scene Description: suggested identification [cf. Font notes]
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B06: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion? - with scroll
![suggested identification [cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1100710023_compressed.png)
Scene Description: suggested identification [cf. Font notes]
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B07: human figure - male - head - bearded - crowned
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B08: unidentified
![carved off [cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1100710025_compressed.png)
Scene Description: carved off [cf. Font notes]
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BU01: angel - head - 8
Scene Description: all badly damaged
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BU02: design element - motifs - floral - square flower - 8
Scene Description: one on each side of the lower level of the underbowl chamfer
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UB01: angel?
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UB02: design element - patterns - tracery
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UB03: unidentified
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UB04: design element - patterns - tracery
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UB05: unidentified
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1100710029_compressed.png)
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UB06: design element - patterns - tracery
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UB07: angel?
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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view of font and cover
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 15674GLE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Evangelists' font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17541702
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B1065, on the A1092, between Clare and Melford
Additional Comments: altered font / damaged font / vandalised by iconoclasts?
Font Notes:
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Parker (1855) notes a "rich P[erpendicular] font" in this church. 'A short history of Glemsford', a 1962 booklet by Kenneth W. Glass, former rector of St. Mary's [http://www.foxearth.org.uk/GlemsfordGlass.html] [accessed 6 November 2009] notes: "a 15th century octagonal font which has a traceried shaft with angel supporters. The bowl has carved panels showing the Virgin enthroned, a mitred bishop's head, two of the Evangelists emblems and the remaining panels are destroyed." Knott (1999?) writes: "There is a rather battered old font, but it has a gorgeous representation of Mary at a prayer desk, presumably part of an Annunciation scene. And the fat bull of St Luke is rather jolly." It is not clear from what is left whether the scene with St. Mary is the Annunciation, although there appear to be no other elements of the Annunciation present; to the left of the Virgin panel is a winged lion (?); to the left of this is a demi-angel holding a shield with the emblem of St. George; left again, the mitred head; to the right of Mary's panel is the winged bull (?); one other panel contains a male ead, bearded and crowned; another panel is now blank, the motifs or scenes in it hacked off.; the surviving panels are framed with little floral motifs; the underbowl has angel heads at the angles, most practically obliterated now, and floral motifs on the chamfer below; the octafonal stem has two surviving figures, perhaps angels, two traceried panels, and the others too damaged for identification.The flat octagonal wooden cover is modern, and has a mini-urn finial.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janice Tostevin for her photographs of this font
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]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]