Little Whelnetham / Little Welnetham
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
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Results: 6 records
B01: symbol - shield - in a quatrefoil - pointed or cusped quatrefoil
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 16 April 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/lwhelnetham.html] [accessed 11 November 2009]
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B02: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - pointed or cusped quatrefoil
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 16 April 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/lwhelnetham.html] [accessed 11 November 2009]
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BU02: design element - motifs - floral - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 16 April 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/lwhelnetham.html] [accessed 11 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
LB01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 16 April 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/lwhelnetham.html] [accessed 11 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
UB01: design element - patterns - tracery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 16 April 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/lwhelnetham.html] [accessed 11 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font at the west end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/lwhelnetham.html] [accessed 11 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15702WHE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17526766
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary Magdalene
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located W of the A134, 3 km S of Bury St. Edmunds
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Font Notes:
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Noted in Parker (1855): " Font, an octagon, with panelled bowl and pedestal". Illustrated in the context of the church interior in Knott (2008). The font has an octagonal basin decorated with a variety of motifs (floral, shields, etc.) inscribed in pointed quatrefoils; the underbowl chamfer has floral motifs; the octagonal stem has tracery, including pairs of trefoiled arches all around the stem; the lower base is octagonal and moulded; plain polygonal plinth; modern.
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: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
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]