Melton / Imeltuna / Inmeltuna
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B01: sacrament - baptism
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B01: sacrament - baptism
![the baptismal font inscribed "I.B.M.", as identified in Cautley (1982) [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0040706099_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the baptismal font inscribed "I.B.M.", as identified in Cautley (1982) [cf. FontNotes]
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B02: sacrament - marriage
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B02: sacrament - marriage
![[cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0040706060_compressed.png)
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B03: sacrament - holy orders
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B03: sacrament - holy orders
![[cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0040706090_compressed.png)
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B04: sacrament - eucharist
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B04: sacrament - eucharist
![[cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0040706061_compressed.png)
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B05: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Andrew - with his cross
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B05: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Andrew - with his cross
!["Martyrdom of St Andrew, flanked by 2 fgs in armor, now badly worn" [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0040706091_compressed.png)
Scene Description: "Martyrdom of St Andrew, flanked by 2 fgs in armor, now badly worn" [cf. FontNotes]
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B06: sacrament - extreme unction
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B06: sacrament - extreme unction
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B07: sacrament - penance
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B07: sacrament - penance
![[cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0040706098_compressed.png)
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B08: sacrament - confirmation
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B08: sacrament - confirmation
![[cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0040706059_compressed.png)
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B09: symbol - shield - coat of arms
![on two of the shields carved above the Eucharist Sacrament scene [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1091031042_compressed.png)
Scene Description: on two of the shields carved above the Eucharist Sacrament scene [cf. FontNotes]
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BU01: design element - motifs - foliage
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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
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UB01: design element - architectural - buttress - crocketed pinnacle - 8
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UB02: design element - architectural - arcade - Ogee arches - cusped and crocketed - 8
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UB03: Apostle or saint - unidentified
Scene Description: one in each niche of the stem
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view of font and cover in context
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view of font and cover
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view of font
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view of font
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view of font cover
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: the baptismal font in the Baptism scene
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00757MEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(early?), Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font / heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
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
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: Station Rd, Melton, Woodbridge IP12 1PX, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1394 380279
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
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]
Additional Comments: damaged font: another font that suffered at the hands of the Commonwelath zealots; William Dowsing?
Font Notes:
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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."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 385889 5774202
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.106581, 1.333781
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 6′ 23.69″ N, 1° 20′ 1.61″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: initials
Inscription Location: on the font depicted in the baptismal panel
Inscription Text: "I.B.M."
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Anderson, M.D., The Imagery of British churches, London: John Murray, 1955, p. 200 fn3
- Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958, p. 351
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 259
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949, p. 23
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982, p. 68, 85
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 168, 220
- 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; p. 192 and pl. XXVIII
- Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
- Nichols, Ann Eljenholm, Seeable Signs: The Iconography of the Seven Sacraments 1350-1544, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1994, p. 5, 78, 105n, 128n, 194, 243, 262, 267, 287, 289, 301n, 321, 342
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]