Sutton nr. Woodbridge / Suchtuna / Suttuna

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Apostle or saint - St. Mary Magdalene

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symbol - Instruments of the Mass

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol - 4

Scene Description: over four of the sides of the octagonal basin, alternating with the three persons of God and Mary Magdalene

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angel - head - 8

Scene Description: one at each angle of the underbowl

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God - God the Father

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 00777SUT

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Date: ca. 1443?

Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (mid), Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Evangelists' font

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints

Church Address: Sutton, Woodbridge IP12 3DU, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1394 412052

Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located off the B1083, 6 km SE of Woodbridge

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich

Historical Region: Hundred of Wilford [in Domesday]

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There are several entries for this Sutton [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM3046/sutton/] [accessed 18 April 2023], one of which, in the lordship of Walter of Caen, and tenant-in-chief Robert Malet in 1086, reports "1 church. 0.18 church lands" in it. Parker (1855) notes an octagonal font "with evangelistic emblems on the bowl, and animals around the pedestal." Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font dated ca. 1443, in the Perpendicular style, a noteworthy example. James (1930) notes: "Sutton Church has a font with figures, including two of the Annunciation. Those round the base are said to be servers at Mass." Knott [2005?] writes: "This mainly Victorian church conceals one of the finest fonts in the county. There is nothing else like it in all East Anglia. It has the 8 orders of the pre-Reformation church around the base, figures representing deacons, priests, bishops, mothers superior, etc. The supporting angels corbelling the bowl have, between them, the instruments of the Mass: paten, chalice, missal, etc. The figures on the bowl are the four evangelists, interspersed with Mary Magdalene, Christ, the symbol of the Holy Spirit, and a very rare God the Father, the old man himself, seated on his throne. Dowsing would have a fit." The wooden cover is octagonal, plain and flat; modern.

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

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 387840 5769898

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.0683, 1.36368

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 4′ 5.88″ N, 1° 21′ 49.25″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 220
James, M. R., Suffolk and Norfolk, London, Toronto: Dent & Sons, 1930, p. 100
Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]