Gedding

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Results: 5 records

B01: design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/gedding.htm] [accessed 10 November 2009]

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B02: symbol - shield - emblem - cross - saltire

Scene Description: St. Andrew? -- Image courtesy & copyright © Simon Knott, 2009 [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk]

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Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/gedding.htm] [accessed 10 November 2009]

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B03: symbol - shield - emblem - cross - Latin

Scene Description: St. George?

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Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/gedding.htm] [accessed 10 November 2009]

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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/gedding.htm] [accessed 10 November 2009]

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/gedding.htm] [accessed 10 November 2009]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15698GED
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 10 km W of Stowmarket
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century [re-cut?], Decorated [altered]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font
No font mentioned in Parker's 1855 entry for this church of the Decorated period. Knott (2007?) notes and illustrates a font and a possible stoup in this church: "At the west end of the church the font is substantially recut, and perhaps not sealed as well as it might have been given that the panels are beginning to green. The smaller object beside it appears to be a holy water stoup, perhaps from the south doorway, and it looks as if it was an unusual pillar stoup." The font, if it is the medieval original, has been re-cut, as Knott suggests; the panels have either single or double trefoiled arches, the single ones inscribing shields charged with crosses: one is the Latin cross of St. George, another has the saltire cross of St. Andrew; the underbowl chamfer is graded; on a plain octagonal stem with a modern lower base and octagonal plinth. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration; modern. The object on the floor may be a stoup; it appears unfinished, but mey be too be the result of re-cutting.

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: 2009-11-10 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.