Bury St. Edmunds No. 3 / Bedrisworth / Beodericsworth / St. Edmundsbury
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view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2020 by Colin Smith
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view of basin - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2020 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2020 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior in context - east view
Scene Description: Source caption: "The view looking west towards St Edmundsbury Cathedral in Suffolk, England."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Diliff [David Iliff], 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2014 by Diliff [David Iliff] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Edmundsbury_Cathedral_Exterior,_Suffolk,_UK_-_Diliff.jpg] [accessed 20 September 2020]
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view of church exterior in context - east view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Part of abbey ruins in Abbey Gardens, Bury St Edmund's, Suffolk, in snow, with the tower of St James' Cathedral in the background"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrew Brown, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 December 2009 by Andrew Brown [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbey_gardens_snow_in_Bury_St_Edmunds_(4).jpg] [accessed 20 September 2020]
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view of church exterior in context - east view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Bury St Edmunds Cathedral and Abbey ruins. The contrast between the new cathedral tower and the old Abbey ruins is spectacular. The Abbey was sacked by local townspeople in 1327 and then on the 20th January 1465, a great fire ravaged the Abbey. It destroyed all the roofs, and brought down the central tower and spire."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bob Jones, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 January 2006 by Bob Jone [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bury_St_Edmunds_Cathedral_and_Abbey_ruins_-_geograph.org.uk_-_214251.jpg] [accessed 20 September 2020]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "The view from the nave looking east in St Edmundsbury Cathedral in Suffolk, England."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Diliff [David Iliff], 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2014 by Diliff [David Iliff] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Edmundsbury_Cathedral_Nave_1,_Suffolk,_UK_-_Diliff.jpg] [accessed 20 September 2020]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "The view from the nave looking west towards the west window in St Edmundsbury Cathedral in Suffolk, England."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Diliff [David Iliff], 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2014 by Diliff [David Iliff] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Edmundsbury_Cathedral_Nave_2,_Suffolk,_UK_-_Diliff.jpg] [accessed 20 September 2020]
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view of font
![was this font built by Scott on the shaft of the late-medieval one? [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1130718018_compressed.png)
Scene Description: was this font built by Scott on the shaft of the late-medieval one? [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2048109] [accessed 18 July 2013]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2020 by Colin Smith
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view of font and cover
![[cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1130718017_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2048108] [accessed 18 July 2013]
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view of font in context - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Baptismal font, St. Edmundsbury Cathedral, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Martinevans123, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 December 2014 by Martinevans123 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baptismal_font,_St._Edmundsbury_Cathedral.JPG] [accessed 20 September 2020]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 15708BUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James / St. Edmundsbury Cathedral
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Church Location: Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 1LS
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located at the A14-A134 crossroads, 20 km S of Thetford, 30 km N of Sudbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end of in the nave, centre aisle
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Bury [St Edmund's] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/] [accessed 25 September 2016]; it mentions 30 priests in it, no doubt as part of the abbey contingent. Parker (1855) reports a plain font of the Perpendicular period here. The Cathedrals of East England site [www.easterncathedrals.org.uk/stedmundsbury.html] [accessed 4 November 2008] notes: "handsome Font cover, a memorial of the first World war". The present font is the work of George Gilbert Scott, done in 1870 [NB: it is said to have been created around a medieval (?) shaft, but have not yet found documentation to corroborate this]; the open-work cover is the work of architect Frank Ernest Howard (1888-1934), pupil of Sir Ninian Comper, of Oxford; other font-covers by Howard are at Balsham (Cambs.), High Ham (Somerset), Southwold St. Edmund's (Suffolk) and Swansea St. Gabriel's. [cf. Index entries for Bury St. Edmunds No. 2 and 4 for earlier fonts of this church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.243889, 0.716667
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 14′ 38″ N, 0° 43′ 0″ E
UTM: 31U 344112 5790621
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lining
LID INFORMATION
Date: ca. 1920 / 20th-century (early)
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855