Needham Market / Nedeham / Nedham / Neidham
Image copyright © Peter Austin, 2010
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: the modern font: the Agnus Dei panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken April 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/needham.htm]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken April 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/needham.htm]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the modern font in the foreground, right (south) side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken April 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/needham.htm]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken April 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/needham.htm]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Austin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken Peter Austin [aka pete-astn]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 17338NEE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off the A14,
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Suffolk Churches, and to to Pater Austin [ala pete-astn] for their photographs of church and modern font
Church Notes: "The church was built between 1458 and 1500 and is composed of irregular flints intermixed with bricks and fragments of stone from earlier buildings [...] The church was built at the expense of Bishop William Grey of Ely [...] The building was a Chapel of Ease to Barking until it was elevated to the status of a Parish Church in 1901." [source: Parish site [http://www.needhammarketparishchurch.org/]]. A brief history of the parish in Onesuffolk [http://www.onesuffolk.co.uk/NeedhamMktTC/History/] notes: "History shows that Roger Bigot held a portion of the Parish of Barking which included a church. As he did not hold Barking church and as Darmsden was not part of Barking at the time, it is likely that the church mentioned was at Needham. The church is mentioned in the Index Eliensis, a survey of property belonging to the See of Ely in 1277, although this church predates the present building which was probably built in 1460."
Font Notes:
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The brilliantly painted present font, octagonal all over, is probably 19th-century; one side of the basin has a carved and painted Agnus Dei with an angraved scroll, but no cross; the other sides are painted with gold fleurs-de-lis on a dusty-blue background. The wooden cover is plain, octagonal and flat; appears modern. [NB: the fabric of the present church dates from the late-15th century, but an earlier church is recorded in the Index Eliensis of 1277; we have no information on the earlier font of that church]
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UTM: 31U 367008 5779704