Woodbridge / Udebrige [Domesday] / Vdebriga / Wdebride / Wdebriga / Wdebrige / Wudebrige / Wudebryge / Ydebrige

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B01: sacrament - baptism

Scene Description: left=Confirmation - centre=Baptism - right=Marriage

Image Source: figital image of a photograph taken 23 July 1998 by BSI

B02: sacrament - marriage

Scene Description: left=Baptism - centre=Marriage - right=Holy Orders

B03: sacrament - holy orders

Scene Description: left=Marriage - centre=Holy Orders - right=Crucifixion

B04: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist

Scene Description: left=Holy Orders - centre=Crucifixion - right=Extreme Unction

Image Source: figital image of a photograph taken 23 July 1998 by BSI

B05: sacrament - extreme unction

Scene Description: left=Crucifixion - centre=Extreme Unction - right=Eucharist

B06: sacrament - eucharist

Scene Description: left=Extreme Unction - centre=Eucharist - right=Penance

B07: sacrament - penance

Scene Description: left=Eucharist - centre=Penance - right=Confirmation

Image Source: figital image of a photograph taken 23 July 1998 by BSI

B08: sacrament - confirmation

Scene Description: left=Penance - centre=Confirmation - right=Baptism

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/woodbridgemary.html

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

angel - 8

Scene Description: now badly damaged

Image Source: figital image of a photograph taken 23 July 1998 by BSI

design element - architectural - buttress - 4

Scene Description: one on every other side of the pedestal base

design element - motifs - floral - lily - 4

Scene Description: one on every other side of the pedestal base

view of basin

Scene Description: left=Holy Orders - centre=Crucifixion - right=Extreme Unction

Image Source: figital image of a photograph taken 23 July 1998 by BSI

view of basin

Scene Description: left=Eucharist - centre=Penance - right=Confirmation

Image Source: figital image of a photograph taken 23 July 1998 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the Eucharist

Image Source: www.sillysuffolk.co.uk

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of basin - detail - baptism

Scene Description: in the centre panel

Image Source: figital image of a photograph taken 23 July 1998 by BSI

view of church exterior - south porch

Image Source: figital image of a photograph taken 23 July 1998 by BSI

view of church exterior - south porch - detail

Image Source: figital image of a photograph taken 23 July 1998 by BSI

view of church exterior - south porch - detail

Image Source: figital image of a photograph taken 23 July 1998 by BSI

view of church interior

Scene Description: Illustration [original source unknown] reproduced in Weaver & Stevens (1988) with the caption "St. Mary's Church in the early 19th century" [NB: these authors, however, note in the history of the church that the box pews, which can still be seen in this image, were removed in the 1875 renovation]

Image Source: Weaver & Stevens (1988)

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/woodbridgemary.html

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover - west side

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/woodbridgemary.html

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: figital image of a photograph taken 23 July 1998 by BSI

view of font cover

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: figital image of a photograph taken 23 July 1998 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 00775WOO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: 11 Market Hill, Woodbridge IP12 4LP, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1394 388820

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located E of the A12, 10 km ENE of Ipswich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich

Historical Region: Hundred of Loose

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in W end, centre of the nave

Date: ca. 1480?

Century and Period: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font

Cognate Fonts: Denston, Great Glemham.

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 several entries for this Woodbridge in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM2749/woodbridge/] [accessed 18 April 2023], one of which, whose tenant-in-chief in 1086 was Robert Malet, and its lord in 1086 was Gilbert of Wissant, reportted "1 church. 0.15 church lands" in it. Listed in Gough (1792) as one of a group of fonts "in the Eastern part of Suffolk" ornamented with the Seven Sacraments. Noted in Cautley (1949), who notes that the font depicted in the baptism panel is hexagonal. Described in Parker (1855) as "very rich, but much mutilated". Baptismal font of the Seven-Sacrament group, studied in detail in Nichols (1994) who dates it to ca. 1480; Nichols (ibid.) comments on the "unsusual shaft with Marian lilly-pots and gives the order of the scenes on the basin sides as follows: 1)Baptism; 2)Confirmation; 3)Penance; 4)Eucharist; 5)Extreme Unction; 6)Crucifixion; 7)Holy Orders; 8)Matrimony. Bond (1908) notes that the font still retains traces of rich gilding and varied colouring. On-site notes: A tall and richly-coloured wooden cover ornaments the 15th-century font [Weaver & Stevens (1988) show an illustration of the church interior from the early 19th century in which there is no cover on the font]. The basin well of the font is lined with lead. A fleur-de-lis in a vase is carved on four alternate sides of the pedestal base; the other four sides have buttresses on them. The font stands on a wider octagonal plinth. Described and illustrated in Knott (2009). The brief entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TM2706849088] notes: "The font is particularly good with representations of the Seven Sacraments."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.0935, 1.31344

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 5′ 36.6″ N, 1° 18′ 48.38″ E

UTM: 31U 384462 5772780

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead lining

Rim Thickness: 10 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 55 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 75-80 cm*

Basin Depth: 27 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 32 cm*

Basin Total Height: 53 cm*

Height of Base: 75 cm*

Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: 32 x32 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 128 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): (plinth 20 cm*) 148 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Date: 20th century

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: yes

Notes: Weaver & Stevens (1988) inform in their illustrated guide of this church that the cover is modern and that the appearance of the flower, symbol of St. Dorothea, is "an indirect tribute to Dorothy Seckford, local benefactor." Noted in Knott (2006) [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk] as a font cover of the 20th century

REFERENCES

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

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

Crossley, Frederick Herbert, English Church Craftsmanship: an Introduction to the Work of the Mediaval Period and Some Account of Later Developments, London: B.T. Batsford, 1941

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"]

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

Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2006-04-14 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

Tasker, Edward G., Encyclopedia of Medieval Church Art, London: B.T. Batsford, 1993

Weaver, M.A., An illustrated guide to the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Woodbridge, Abingdon: Printed by Leach's of Abingdon, 1988