Orford nr. Ipswich

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B01: angel - holding banderole or scroll (Apostle or saint - Evangelist - St. Matthew - symbol - angel?)

Scene Description: northwest side of the basin [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Peter Fairweather [wwww.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B02: God - God the Father - in majesty - crowned - holding Christ crucified

Scene Description: west side of the basin [cf. Font notes on the suggestion that mistakes were made in the restoration of this scene]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 23 September 2009 by Amanda Slater [www.flickr.com/photos/15181848@N02/3972419282] [accessed 13 May 2019]

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B03: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Luke - symbol - winged bull

Scene Description: southwest side of the basin

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 23 September 2009 by Amanda Slater [www.flickr.com/photos/15181848@N02/3972419282] [accessed 13 May 2019]

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B04: angel - holding shield - emblem - the instruments of the Passion

Scene Description: south side of the basin

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 23 September 2009 by Amanda Slater [www.flickr.com/photos/15181848@N02/3972419282] [accessed 13 May 2019]

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B05: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - symbol - eagle

Scene Description: southeast side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Peter Fairweather [wwww.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]

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B06: Virgin Mary - Pietà?

Scene Description: east side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Peter Fairweather [wwww.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]

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B07: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion

Scene Description: northeast side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Peter Fairweather [wwww.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]

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B08: angel - holding shield - emblem - Holy Trinity?

Scene Description: north side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Peter Fairweather [wwww.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]

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angel - cherub - 8

Scene Description: on the upper level of the underbowl

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Peter Fairweather [wwww.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]

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animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant - 4

Scene Description: alternating with club-wielding woodwooses

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Peter Fairweather [wwww.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]

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design element - motifs - floral - rose - 8

Scene Description: on the lower level of the underbowl

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Peter Fairweather [wwww.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil

Scene Description: on the sides of both steps of the plinth

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Peter Fairweather [wwww.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]

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human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose - 4

Scene Description: wildmen holding clubs alternating with sedente lions

Image Source: greyscale version of a digital photograph taken 1 September 2008 by Janice Tostevin

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inscription

Scene Description: [cf. Inscription area for full text]

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Peter Fairweather [wwww.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the eagle: symbol of John

Image Source: digital image of a detail of an engraving by Godfrey from a drawing in 'The Antiquarian Repertory' (1807-1809)

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: angel with charged shield: symbol of the Trinity?

Image Source: digital image of a detail of an engraving by Godfrey from a drawing in 'The Antiquarian Repertory' (1807-1809)

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Trinity: God the Father holds the crucified Son; the dove, symbol of the Holy Ghost, is missing

Image Source: digital image of a detail of an engraving by Godfrey from a drawing in 'The Antiquarian Repertory' (1807-1809)

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the ox: symbol of Luke

Image Source: digital image of a detail of an engraving by Godfrey from a drawing in 'The Antiquarian Repertory' (1807-1809)

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Pieta

Image Source: digital image of a detail of an engraving by Godfrey from a drawing in 'The Antiquarian Repertory' (1807-1809)

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: angel holding charged shield: the Instruments of the Passion

Image Source: digital image of a detail of an engraving by Godfrey from a drawing in 'The Antiquarian Repertory' (1807-1809)

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: angel: symbol of Matthew

Image Source: digital image of a detail of an engraving by Godfrey from a drawing in 'The Antiquarian Repertory' (1807-1809)

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: lion: symbol of Mark

Image Source: digital image of a detail of an engraving by Godfrey from a drawing in 'The Antiquarian Repertory' (1807-1809)

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: the remains of the 12thC chancel are partially visible here on the extreme right

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 27 August 2016 by Alexey Komarov [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Bartholomew,_Orford.jpg] [accessed 13 May 2019]

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view of church interior - chancel - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St Bartholomew, the ruined chancel, late Norman, 12th century. Orford, Suffolk."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 September 2016 by Meria Geoian [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_St_Bartholomew_Orford_14-10_MH-GB_8547.jpg] [accessed 13 May 2019]

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view of church interior - chancel - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 September 2016 by Meria Geoian [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_St_Bartholomew_Orford_14-10_MH-GB_8549.jpg] [accessed 13 May 2019]

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view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2006 by Oliver Dixon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/185027] [accessed 13 May 2019]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of adetail of an engraving by Godfrey from a drawing in 'The Antiquarian Repertory' (1807-1809)

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Gardner (1925: pl. CLXXII)

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital im age of a detail of an engraving by Godfrey from a drawing in 'The Antiquarian Repertory' (1807-1809)

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Peter Fairweather [wwww.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

Scene Description: note the old font-cover

Image Source: digital image of an engraving by E.J. Roberts from a painting by G. Arnald A.R.A., published by W. Clarke in 'The Antiquarian Itineray' (1815-1818) [www.londonancestor.com]

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view of font and cover - program

Image Source: digital image of an engraving by Godfrey from a drawing in 'The Antiquarian Repertory' (1807-1809)

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view of font and cover - southwest side

Scene Description: showing [L->R]: God the Father holding Christ on the cross - Symbol of Luke - Demi angel holding shield with Instruments of the Passion emblem

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 September 2009 by Amanda Slater [www.flickr.com/photos/15181848@N02/3972419282] [accessed 13 May 2019]

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view of font and cover in context - south side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 June 2014 by David Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4052400] [accessed 13 May 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00489ORF

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Bartholomew

Church Patron Saints: St. Bartholomew

Church Location: 109A Front St, Orford, Woodbridge IP12 2LN, UK -- Tel.: +44 1394 450336

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located just W of the Alde river and the Orford Ness Nature Reserve, up the coast from Felixtowe, about 30 km ENE of Ipswich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: ca. 1400?

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Peter Fairweather, of www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk, and to Janice Tostevin, for their photographs of this font.

Church Notes: original church mid-12thC; present church chiefly 14thC, with reconstruction in the 19th and 20th

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No individual entry found for this Orford in the Domesday survey. Gough (1792) writes: "At the sides are the symbols of the Evangelists, the Deity and Christ, the Virgin and dead Christ, angels holding instruments of the passion and emblems of the Trinity. On the shaft are alternately woodmen and beasts sitting." [NB: Gough (ibid.) gives the text of the inscription -cf. infra- with only one variation: the last two words are in reverse order: "fieri fecerunt"]. The font and old cover are noted, with an engraving by Godfrey, in 'The Antiquarian Repertory' (1807-1809): "it is of stone, but according to the present barbarous custom smeared over with paint, by which the delicate touches of the chissel are either hid, or extremely blunted. Its figure is an octagon, having on each face, within a kind of square frame or border, an hierogliphical figure, representing one of the four Evangelists, or one alluding to the passion of our blessed Saviour. Of the first kind is an Angel in a chair, holding a scroll, signifying St. Matthew -- a winged Lion for St. Mark; the Ox of St. Luke, an Eagle for St. John, all likewise holding scrolls. The four other figures are, 1st, The Virgin sitting on a throne, holding the dead body of Christ in her lap. The head of Christ has by some acident been broken off. 2. The figure of an Angel, holding an escutcheon in his hands, charged with a representation of the Trinity. 3. The figure of a King seated on a throne, holding between his knees a large crucifix. 4. An Angel holding an escutcheon, charged with the cross, spear, crown of thorns, nails, scourges, and trumpet. As several of these are not shewn in the View of the Font, they are all placed round the margins of the Plate. Beneath these, at every angle, are the projecting heads of Angels who, spreading and intermixing their wings, form an agreeable ornament to the bottom of the font. This is supported by a foot, diminishing towards the bottom, which is likewise octagonal; round it are four figures of sitting animals, somewhat resemblings rams, and placed alternatively with those of four Wild Men, bearing clubs, all on small pedestals. The whole stands on an octagonal base of three steps; the edge of the second step is ornamented with flowers. Round its upper surface, near the verge, is cut the following inscription in old English characters. ORATE PRO ANIMABUS JOHANNIS COKEREL ET KATERINE UXORIS EIUS QUI ISTAM FONTEM IN HONORE DEI FECERUNT FIERI --in English-- Pray for the souls of John Cokerel and Katherine his wife, who for the honour of God caused this font to be made. No date is added to inform us when it was constructed, though from the style of its workmanship it sems very ancient. Its cover, which is a dome or cupola, crowned with a ball, makes an elegant termination, and conspires with its other parts in giving a picturesque and elegant form to the whole." Illustrated also in an engraving by E.J. Roberts from a painting by G. Arnald A.R.A., published by W. Clarke in 'The Antiquarian Itineray' (1815-1818) [www.londonancestor.com]. [NB:Godfrey and Roberts show an old, probably Jacobean, cover on this font; the old cover is no longer on the font today]. Noted in Paley (1844) as a baptismal font bearing a sculptured inscription. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 describes it as "a font of exquisite workmanship". Parker (1855) cites Rickman, and identifies some of the scenes (emblems of the Evangelists, Virgin and Saviour, Crucifixion, Trinity), grotesque figures around the pedestal, and mentions the inscription as well. The 9 July 1872 Oxford Meeting of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology [http://books.google.ca/books] [accessed 17 March 2009] describes the font. [NB: reported also in The Antiquary (August 10, 1872, p. 190-191); this latter source reports suggestions of mistakes made in the restoration of the font: "first, the side on which is the emblem of the Father with the crucifix is placed westwards, and it is contended that it must originally have been placed looking towards the east; and next, it was said that the small piece of stone which the restorer has put on the top of the cross should not be there, and that the cross was intended to be a tau cross". Listed in Cox-Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Bond (1908) mentions an inscription on the plinth of this font with the donor's name; he describes the cylindrical grooved shafts [NB: Bond describes the shafts of the Orford font on p. 149, in the chapter dedicated to Norman fonts]. Described and illustrated in Gardner (1925) who dates it to ca. 1400: "The subjects are interesting: a Trinity, the Almighty Father, and the Crucified Son; the Dove representing the Holy Ghost is missing. It was evidently above the cross. The other panels contain the signs of the evangelists, of which are visible the Angel of St Matthew and the Ox of St Luke. Below the panels are angels suggesting the coming angel cornices [...], and round the stem are alternatively lions and wodehouses or wild men with clubs--an importation from heraldry." James (1930) writes: "The font is rich; it has the Evangelistic emblems, a Pietà, and an 'Italian' Trinity (the Father supporting the crucified Son before Him)." Described in Jenkins (1999) as "an original Suffolk octagon with much of its carving intact, including a wildman with a club, a powerful Trinity and a lovely Pietà." In the Index of Christian Art. C. S. Drake [personal communication of 29/4/2003] describes the program thus: "4 Evangelists, God the Father with a small Crucifixion, angel with banderole, angel with instruments of the Passion, angel with shield." The font consists of an octagonal basin with a chamfered underbowl mounted on a square pedestal base with buttressed angles, and raised on a thin octagonal lower base and a larger octagonal plinth. The basin has deeply-set panels with the four symbols of the Evangelists alternating with 1)image of God the Father holding a crucified Christ, 2)angel with shield charged with the Instrumehts of the Passion, 3)Pieta, and 4)angel with shield and emblem of the Holy Trinity? [NB: the angel holding a scroll or banderole is, if we accept the alternate arrangement of the Evangelists' symbols, the angel for Matthew]. The angles of the underbowl chamfer are decorated with cherubs, the panels with roses. The sides of the base has four protruding figures of woodwooses holding clubs, while the buttressed angles have sedente lions; all these figures are raised on pedestals. The two-step octagonal plinth carries the donor legend on the upper step; the sidesof both steps are decorated with quatrefoil motif. The flat octagonal wooden font cover is decorated with metal additions and appears modern. Described and illustrated in Knott (2007).

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.0951, 1.5349

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 5′ 42.36″ N, 1° 32′ 5.64″ E

UTM: 31U 399636 5772628

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: two?

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Notes: Inscription on plinth with donors names: "ORATE PRO ANIMABUS JOHANNIS COKEREL ET KATERINE UXORIS EIUS QUI ISTAM FONTEM IN HONORE DEI FECERUNT FIERI [cf. FontNotes] --in English-- Pray for the souls of John Cokerel and Katherine his wife, who for the honour of God caused this font to be made" ('The Antiquarian Repertory' (1807-1809))

Inscription Location: on the plinth

Inscription Text: "+ ORATE PRO ANIMABUS JOH[anni]IS : COKEREL : ET KATERINE : UXORIS EIUS : QUI : ISTAM : FONTEM : IN HONORE : DEI : FEC[e}RUNT FIERI"

Inscription Source: [cf. Image area]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal ornamentation -- the older font-cover probably Jacobean [cf. FontNotes]

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

Antiquarian repertory: a miscellaneous assemblage of topography, history, biography, customs, and manners, intended to illustrate and preserve sevral valuable remains of old times, London: Printed and published for E. Jeffery, 1807-1809

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Gardner, Samuel, A Guide to English Gothic Architecture (illustrated by numerous drawings & photographs), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1925

Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; r["References"]

Index of Medieval Art, The Index of Medieval Art, Index of Christian Art, Princeton, [s.d.]. URL: https://theindex.princeton.edu/.

James, M. R., Suffolk and Norfolk, London, Toronto: Dent & Sons, 1930

Jenkins, Simon, England's Thousand Best Churches, London and New York: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1999 [2000 rev. printing]

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

Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844

Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855