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Results: 23 records
B01: sacrament - baptism
Scene Description: left=Confirmation - centre=Baptism - right=Marriage
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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
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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
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B08: sacrament - confirmation
Scene Description: left=Penance - centre=Confirmation - right=Baptism
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/woodbridgemary.html
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view of font and cover in context
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angel - 8
Scene Description: now badly damaged
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view of basin
Scene Description: left=Eucharist - centre=Penance - right=Confirmation
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view of basin
Scene Description: left=Holy Orders - centre=Crucifixion - right=Extreme Unction
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view of church exterior - south porch - detail
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view of church exterior - south porch
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view of church exterior - south porch - detail
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view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/woodbridgemary.html
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view of font and cover - west side
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view of font cover
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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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 - detail - baptism
Scene Description: in the centre panel
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: the Eucharist
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan Semmens, 2002
Image Source: www.sillysuffolk.co.uk
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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]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Weaver & Stevens, 1988
Image Source: Weaver & Stevens (1988)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00775WOO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 1998-07-23
Font Date: ca. 1480?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font
Cognate Fonts: Denston, Great Glemham.
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in W end, centre of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: 11 Market Hill, Woodbridge IP12 4LP, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1394 388820
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: damaged font / mutilated
Font Notes:
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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."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 384462 5772780
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.0935, 1.31344
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 5′ 36.6″ N, 1° 18′ 48.38″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin & base
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, p. 200 fn3
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 253, 259
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949, p. 23, 24
- 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. 168-169, 220
- 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, fig. 92
- 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
- James, M. R., Suffolk and Norfolk, London, Toronto: Dent & Sons, 1930, p. 97
- 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. 7, 74-75, 82, 87, 89, 107n, 161, 164-165, 195, 205, 224, 230, 231, 233, 243, 245, 253-254, 282, 285, 287, 288, 301, 304, 309, 315, 325, 338, 352 and Pl. 55, 61, 85
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]
- Tasker, Edward G., Encyclopedia of Medieval Church Art, London: B.T. Batsford, 1993, p. 199
- Weaver, M.A., An illustrated guide to the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Woodbridge, Abingdon: Printed by Leach's of Abingdon, 1988, p. 7