Ipswich No. 2
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Results: 32 records
B04: animal - mammal - lion - 3
Scene Description: From the left: two lions facing left, another lion facing right
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 July 2000 by BSI
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view of font
Scene Description: protective cover removed for the photograph
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 July 2000 by BSI
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a drawing and engraving by T. Higham, published by W, Clarke in 'The Antiquarian Itineray' (1815-1818)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of font - northeast sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Eden (1909)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of font - southeast side
Scene Description: showing base of Perpendicular period
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Eden (1909)
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cautley, 1938
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Cautley (1938)
Copyright Instructions: reproduction permission received from the publisher
view of basin's top
design element - motifs - foliage - acanthus
Scene Description: at each corner of the rim surface of the basin
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 July 2000 by BSI
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animal - mammal - lion - 3
Scene Description: From the left: lion facing left, two others facing right
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 July 2000 by BSI
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animal - mammal - lion - 3
Scene Description: From the left: lion facing left, two others facing right
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 July 2000 by BSI
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animal - mammal - lion - 3
Scene Description: From the left: lion facing left, two others facing right
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 July 2000 by BSI
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view of basin - west side
Scene Description: griffons
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Eden (1909)
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view of church exterior in context - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "The circular building on the left, at the junction of St Peter's Street with this one-way section of Star Lane, is part of a more traditionally-shaped building occupied by Seven plc, a property company. Opposite it is the St Peter's-by-the-Waterfront Heritage and Culture Centre (the Augustinian Priory of St Peter & St Paul founded by Henry I in 1130 that finally served as a parish church prior to being made redundant). The graffiti-marked building behind the former church is the dilapidated R & W. Paul malt silo and to the left of the church tower, amongst the other modern blocks, is "The Mill", a mixed-purpose block."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Hallam-Jones, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2013 by David Hallam-Jones [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3495525] [accessed 27 November 2016]
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view of church exterior in context - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Vince, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2014 by Richard Vince [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4142189] [accessed 27 November 2016]
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human figure - standing - 4
![one on each side of the later [15thC?] base; one of them appears to be a warrior](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/IPS0003304_compressed.png)
Scene Description: one on each side of the later [15thC?] base; one of them appears to be a warrior
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 July 2000 by BSI
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animal - mammal - lion - passant-gardant - facing right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 February 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
animal - mammal - lion - passant-gardant - facing left
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 February 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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animal - mammal - lion - passant-gardant - facing left
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 February 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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animal - mammal - lion - passant-gardant - facing right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 February 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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animal - mammal - lion - passant-gardant - facing right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 February 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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animal - mammal - lion - passant-gardant - facing left
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 February 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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animal - mammal - lion - passant-gardant - facing left
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 February 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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animal - mammal - lion - passant-gardant - facing right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 February 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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animal - mammal - lion - passant-gardant - facing right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 February 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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view of basin - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Romilly Allen (1884)
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view of basin - north side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Ron Baxter, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/sf/ipstp/index.htm] [accessed 21 January 2007]
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view of basin - east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Ron Baxter, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/sf/ipstp/index.htm] [accessed 21 January 2007]
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view of basin - west side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Ron Baxter, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/sf/ipstp/index.htm] [accessed 21 January 2007]
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view of basin - north side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Ron Baxter, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/sf/ipstp/index.htm] [accessed 21 January 2007]
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view of basin - upper view - detail
Scene Description: the northwest spandrel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Ron Baxter, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/sf/ipstp/index.htm] [accessed 21 January 2007]
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view of basin - east side - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Ron Baxter, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/sf/ipstp/index.htm] [accessed 21 January 2007]
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view of basin - west side - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Ron Baxter, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/sf/ipstp/index.htm] [accessed 21 January 2007]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00364IPS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2000-07-07
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only] -- 15th century [base only], Medieval / composite
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai font
Cognate Fonts: St. Mary Bourne, Winchester, etc. [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter [redundant]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, centre of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: on-site notes (7 July 2000): St Peter's is no longer open to either cult or visitors. There is a possibility that the building may be used in future as an exhibition hall or such related use. Communication to BSI (22 February 2010): the church is open every now and then for cultural events.
Church Address: College St (at Bridge St), Ipswich, Suffolk IP4 1DB, United Kingdom
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located in the city centre, at the corner of College and Bridge streets, N of the A137 and the river
Additional Comments: disused font: the whole church is no longer used for cult purposes / altered font: new base in the 15thC (?)
Font Notes:
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Illustrated in a drawing and engraving by T. Higham, published by W. Clarke in 'The Antiquarian Itineray' (1815-1818). Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 mentions "a large font of great antiquity and curious design" in this church. Noted in Parker (1855), with a reference to Rickman; Parker describes it as "similar in character to that at Winchester […] of black marble, but mutilated". Noted, with an illustration, in Romilly Allen (1884). Square mounted Tournai stone font, similar in shape to other Tournai fonts: large square basin rests on central cylindrical base with four corner constructional colonnettes [NB: the base is of a later date, of the Perpendicular period]. The top surface of the bowl has a large ring round the inner well and vegetal motif in the spandrels; each of the sides of the basin has three lions as ornamentation; in sides 1, 2 and 3 the lion on the left looks left while the other two face right; in side 4 the lion on the right faces right while the other two face left; the side of each face of the base contains a human figure; they are very disfigured, although one appears to be that of an armed male (a warrior?). Described and illustrated in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/sf/ipstp/index.htm] [accessed 21 January 2007] which declares that this font "was almost certainly the original font of the Priory of St Peter and St Paul". [NB: St Peter's was made redundant in 1979 and remained closed and no longer accessible to the public for many years, the font itself encased in a protective box for protection; in 1981 it was leased to the Borough and is now in the care of the Ipswich Historic Churches Trust which apparently intends to use the church as an exhibition hall [on-site, 7 July 2000]]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the late Colin S. Drake for his help in documenting this font, and to Janice Tostevin for her photographs on the font's felines
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 373382 5768548
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.05305, 1.153352
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 3′ 10.98″ N, 1° 9′ 12.07″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (black and blue) (Tournai marble)
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Rim Thickness: 20 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 84 cm
Basin Depth: 30 cm
Height of Basin Side: 28 cm
Basin Total Height: 45 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 107 cm
Trapezoidal Basin: 108 x 108 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSI -- [Eden (1909: 28) has: bowl height: 1' 6"; bowl depth at centre: 1'; bowl diameter outside: 3' 6"; bowl diameter inside: 2' 9"]
LID INFORMATION
Notes: Cautley's photograph of ca. 1938 shows a flat wooden cover with a knob finial [this lid may still be around in the church, but it was not on the font in our July 2000 visit]
REFERENCES
- Antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of archictecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic, with other vestiges of antiquity in Great Britain, London: Published for the proprietors by W. Clarke [...], 1815-1818, plate
- Allen, J. Romilly, "Notes on Early Christian Symbolism", N.S., VI, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1884, pp. 380-464; pl. 23
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 205
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk Churches and their Treasures, London: Batsford, 1938, fig. (??)
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982, p. 65
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles J., English Church Fittings Furniture and Accessories, London: B.T. Batsford, 1922
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 168, 220
- Eden, Cecil H., Black Tournai Fonts in England, London: E. Stock, 1909, p. 9, 25, 26 27-28
- Friar, Stephen, The Sutton Companion to Churches, Thrupp, Stroud (Gloucs.): Sutton Publishing, 2003, p. 203
- Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=51063] [accessed 14 February 2007]
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]
- Ronse, F. T., Les fonts baptismaux de Zedelghem et les fonts romans tournaisiens du XIIe siècle, Bruges: Apostolat liturgique, 1929, p. 11
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 64, 133