Melton / Imeltuna / Inmeltuna

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B01: sacrament - baptism

Scene Description: the baptismal font inscribed "I.B.M.", as identified in Cautley (1982) [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a detail of an engraving from a drawing by J. Basire in Gough (1792)

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B01: sacrament - baptism

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/meltonnew.htm] [accessed31 October 2009]

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B02: sacrament - marriage

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a detail of an engraving from a drawing by J. Basire in Gough (1792)

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B02: sacrament - marriage

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/meltonnew.htm] [accessed31 October 2009]

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B03: sacrament - holy orders

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a detail of an engraving from a drawing by J. Basire in Gough (1792)

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B03: sacrament - holy orders

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/meltonnew.htm] [accessed31 October 2009]

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B04: sacrament - eucharist

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a detail of an engraving from a drawing by J. Basire in Gough (1792)

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B04: sacrament - eucharist

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/meltonnew.htm] [accessed31 October 2009]

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B05: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Andrew - with his cross

Scene Description: "Martyrdom of St Andrew, flanked by 2 fgs in armor, now badly worn" [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a detail of an engraving from a drawing by J. Basire in Gough (1792)

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B05: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Andrew - with his cross

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/meltonnew.htm] [accessed31 October 2009]

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B06: sacrament - extreme unction

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a detail of an engraving from a drawing by J. Basire in Gough (1792)

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B06: sacrament - extreme unction

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/meltonnew.htm] [accessed31 October 2009]

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B07: sacrament - penance

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a detail of an engraving from a drawing by J. Basire in Gough (1792)

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B07: sacrament - penance

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/meltonnew.htm] [accessed31 October 2009]

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B08: sacrament - confirmation

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of detail of an engraving from a drawing by J. Basire in Gough (1792)

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B08: sacrament - confirmation

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/meltonnew.htm] [accessed31 October 2009]

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B09: coat of arms

Scene Description: on two of the shields carved above the Eucharist Sacrament scene [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 May 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/meltonnew.htm] [accessed31 October 2009]

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BU01: design element - motifs - foliage

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 May 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/meltonnew.htm] [accessed31 October 2009]

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P01: design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 16

Scene Description: arranged up-and-down, two per side, with an inscribed motif in each

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/meltonnew.htm] [accessed31 October 2009]

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UB01: design element - architectural - buttress - crocketed pinnacle - 8

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 May 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/meltonnew.htm] [accessed31 October 2009]

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UB02: design element - architectural - arcade - Ogee arches - cusped and crocketed - 8

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 May 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/meltonnew.htm] [accessed31 October 2009]

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UB03: Apostle or saint - unidentified

Scene Description: one in each niche of the stem

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 May 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/meltonnew.htm] [accessed31 October 2009]

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the baptismal font in the Baptism scene

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 May 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/meltonnew.htm] [accessed31 October 2009]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of an engraving from a drawing by J. Basire in Gough (1792)

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a detail of an engraving from a drawing by J. Basire in Gough (1792)

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/meltonnew.htm] [accessed31 October 2009]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/meltonnew.htm] [accessed31 October 2009]

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view of font cover

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 May 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/meltonnew.htm] [accessed31 October 2009]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00757MEL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: Station Rd, Melton, Woodbridge IP12 1PX, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1394 380279

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located just N of Woodbridge, about 10 km ENE of Ipswich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich

Historical Region: Hundred of Wilford [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Nichols (1994) informs that the font was moved into the church of St. Andrew's in 1868 from the original church

Century and Period: 16th century(early?), Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font / heraldic font

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are a number of entries for this Melton [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM2850/melton/] [accessed 12 April 2023], none of which report either cleric or church in it. Listed, with an engraving by J. Basire, in Gough (1792) as one of a group of fonts "in the Eastern part of Suffolk" ornamented with the Seven Sacraments. Noted in Parker (1855) and in Cautley (1949). Studied and described in Nichols (1994): octagonal font of the Seven-Sacrament group with an "elaborate foliated chamfer"; she describes the "reliefs badly defaced and some disfigurement, but good remains of female costume", and dates the font to the first quarter of the 16th century (in agreement with Fryer's dating of the armour depicted on the 8th relief [cf. infra]. The order of the panels [a/p Nichols (1994)] is: 1)Baptism; 2)Marriage; 3)Holy Orders; 4)Eucharist; 5)martyrdom of St. Andrew [patron saint of the church]; 6)Extreme Unction; 7)Penance; 8)Confirmation. Nichols informs that "in 1868 font moved from original to new church". Bond (1908), after Fryer, states that the armour on the Melton font is that in use ca. 1510 to ca. 1520 [Bond's dating is based on Fryer's, as he acknowledges in a footnote]. The font is the usual octagonal shape for this group, the eight panels of the basin deeply carved, but now badly damaged; the underbowl chamfer is decorated with a running floral pattern; the stam of the base has protruding buttreses at the angles with crocketed pinnacles, while the sides have Ogee crocketed niches with standing and sitting figures; the lower base or plinth, which has step-up step for the celebrant, has sides decorated with motifs in trefoil arches up-and-down. Cautley (1982) notes that the font in the baptismal scene is inscribed 'I.B.M." Noted and fully illustrated in Knott (2008): "The great feature of the interior is the late medieval font which was brought here from the old church. It is one of Suffolk's 13 seven sacrament fonts, one of only ten that have surviving imagery. It is slightly more battered than many of its companions, but it is particularly interesting for its unique 8th panel, which shows the martyrdom of St Andrew. It also has a characterful 'last rites' panel, with a chamberpot and a pair of slippers under the dying man's bed, as at Badingham. This font must have been one of the last of the series; the vinework under the bowl is reminiscent of that on the font at Walsoken in Norfolk, one of the very last fonts to be made in England before the Reformation intervened." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TM2839450604] notes: "Parish Church 1866-8 [...] Fine C15 font, tall octagonal stem with pinnacles at the corners and canopied niches with signs of the four Evangelists and four small figures; the octagonal bowl has panels with the Seven Sacrements and the Martyrdom of St Andrew."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.106581, 1.333781

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 6′ 23.69″ N, 1° 20′ 1.61″ E

UTM: 31U 385889 5774202

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: initials

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: on the font depicted in the baptismal panel

Inscription Text: "I.B.M."

REFERENCES

Anderson, M.D., The Imagery of British churches, London: John Murray, 1955

Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958

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

Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949

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

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"]

Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-10-31 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.

Nichols, Ann Eljenholm, Seeable Signs: The Iconography of the Seven Sacraments 1350-1544, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1994

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