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Posted: 30 Dec 2013

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Font, Covehithe Church, Suffolk

Font, Covehithe Church, Suffolk
In around fifty years time the great but sadly largely ruinous medieval church at Covehithe will have joined is near neighbours at Dunwich and Eastern Bavents and fallen into the sea.
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 A Buildings Fan
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This is the only information I have been able to find on the font, and I'm not sure it relates to this panel.

' some of us examine the font, recycled from the earlier church, which has stylised lions and hairy human-like figures that have had their heads chiselled off. Headless or not, these strange decapitated figures are recognisable as representations of the woodwose (wild man), a creature that belongs to the same fabulist stable as the Green Man, the crude anti-masonry no doubt the handiwork of William Dowsing’s men as it was these same arch-puritans who did for the stained glass windows that used to illuminate the original church.'

eastofelveden.wordpress.com/2014/09/23/at-covehithe

Best Wishes James
9 years ago. Edited 9 years ago.

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