Worlingham Magna

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B01: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - coat of arms or emblem - unidentified - 4

Scene Description: alternating with the four sejant-gardant lions

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 October 2009 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/worlingham.htm] [accessed 29 February 2012]

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B02: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant - 4

Scene Description: alternating with the four angels holding shields

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 October 2009 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/worlingham.htm] [accessed 29 February 2012]

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LB01: animal - mammal - lion - sejant - 4

Scene Description: alternating with the four buttresses at the angles of the stem

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 11 October 2009 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/worlingham.htm] [accessed 29 February 2012]

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LB02: design element - architectural - buttress - 4

Scene Description: alternated with the sejant lions at the angles of the stem

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 11 October 2009 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/worlingham.htm] [accessed 29 February 2012]

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P01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 32

Scene Description: four on each side of the upper step of the plinth

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 11 October 2009 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/worlingham.htm] [accessed 29 February 2012]

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UB01: angel - cherub - 16

Scene Description: two rows of eight

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 11 October 2009 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/worlingham.htm] [accessed 29 February 2012]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2007 by Hellen Steed [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/550559] [accessed 29 February 2012]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2008 by Adrian S. Pye [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2128273] [accessed 29 February 2012]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 October 2009 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/worlingham.htm] [accessed 29 February 2012]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 October 2009 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/worlingham.htm] [accessed 29 February 2012]

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view of font cover

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 11 October 2009 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/worlingham.htm] [accessed 29 February 2012]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 17947WOR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Lowestoft Road, Worlingham, Suffolk NR34 7RB

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 2 km E of Beccles, effectively now a suburb of the latter

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich [formerly Diocese of Norwich]

Historical Region: Hundred of Wangford

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, centre aisle

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font / heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Suckling (1846-1848) notes that two churches are recorded in this parish in the Domesday Survey of 1086, and adds: "The two churches which formerly existed in Worlingham were appropriated to the Convent of Butley. They were dedicated respectively to All Saints and St. Peter. [...] The Prior presented to the church of All Saints soon after the year 1300; so that, probably, the appropriation of both benefices was effected about the same time. [...] The church of All Saints is now the only parochial church." Suckling (ibid.) does not mention a font in either of the churches here. [cf. Index entry for Worlingham Parva for Worlingham St. Peter's]. The baptismal font here consists of an octagonal basin with deeply-carved sides decorated with four gardant lions and four demi-figures of angels holding shields alternating all around; the shields appear almost totally blank now but there are traces of relief that hint at coats or arms or emblems on them originally; the inner side of the frames containing the lions are decorated with tiny square flowers; the underbowl has two rows of winged cherub heads [the usual is one row with floral motifs below; the lower row appears to be part of the base block; the upper row is definitely part of the basin block] decorating the chamfer; the pedestal base is octagonal-to-square, with the common arrangement of four sejant-gardant lions alternating with four buttresses at the angles; raised on a two-step plinth, the upper step decorated with quatrefoil motifs on the sides. Tall octagonal pyramidal cover with crocketed arrises and turned finial.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.451937, 1.596785

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 27′ 6.97″ N, 1° 35′ 48.43″ E

UTM: 31U 404644 5812232

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: yes; pulley

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Suckling, Alfred, The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk, with genealogical and architectural notices of its several towns and villages, London: John Weale [...], 1846-1848