Stanstead nr. Glemsford
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B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8
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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Brokentaco, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 November 2006 by Brokentaco [http://www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/300934645/] [accessed 9 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15687STA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century [re-cut or re-tooled], Perpendicular [altered?]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17532722
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just N of Glemsford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Additional Comments: altered font / re-cut? / re-tooled? [not mentioned in Knott -- 9 Nov 2009]
Font Notes:
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Noted in Parker (1855): "Font, octagonal, with plain quatrefoils on the sides." The font consists of an octagonal basin with a large deeply-cur quatrefoil on each side, obviously re-carved or re-tooled in modern times; moulded underbowl chamfer; plain octagonal stem with splaying lower base; on a narrow rectangular plinth. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; modern.
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
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]