Ipswich No. 1

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Results: 17 records

B01: angel - holding shield - coat of arms - unidentified

Scene Description: one of four angels holding shields, a lion rampant on this one; the head of the angel broken off together with a good chunk of the upper rim; probably a staple of the old font cover was removed or broke the stone

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B02: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - symbol - eagle - with scroll

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B03: angel - holding shield - blank shield

Scene Description: the second of four; the only one with a blank shield

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B04: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion - with scroll

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B05: Angel - holding shield - emblem

Scene Description: the third of four; perhaps St. Andrew's cross

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B06: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Luke - symbol - winged bull - with scroll

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B07: Angel - holding shield - emblem

Scene Description: the fourth of four -- Image courtesy & copyright © Janice Tostevin 2009

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B08: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew - symbol - angel - with scroll

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B09: design element - architectural - buttress - crocketed pinnacle - 8

Scene Description: at the angles -- [cf. Font notes]

BU01: angel - head - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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BU02: design element - motifs - floral - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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UB01: animal - mammal - lion - sejant

Scene Description: one of four -- [cf. Font notes]

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UB02: animal - mammal - lion - sejant

Scene Description: one of four

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UB04: animal - mammal - lion - sejant

Scene Description: one of four

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UB05: design element - architectural - buttress - 4

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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YB03: animal - mammal - lion - sejant

Scene Description: one of four

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01223IPS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary Quay
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 45 Foundation St, Ipswich IP4 1FW, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located in the Ipswich docklands area
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1448?
Century and Period: 15th century (mid?), Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Evangelists' font / heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janice Tostevin for her photographs of this font
Described in Parker (1855) as a good baptismal font of the Perpendicular period "with the evangelistic symbols and angels in the upper panels". Cox & Harvey (1907) and Bond (1908) mention an inscription "SAL ET SALIVA" on this font, but Tyrrell-Green (1928) states that "the writers are mistaken in mentioning the font at St. Mary's, Ipswich, as inscribed" [NB: the font with the inscription is actually St. Margaret's, listed in this Index as Ipswich No. 6]. Listed in Cautley (1982) in a group of 15th-century heraldic fonts in Suffolk. The font consists of an octagnal basin with deeply-carved vertical sides on which alternate the symbols of the four Evangelists with angels holding charged shields (one of the four shields is blank); the angles are carved as crocketed buttresses; the underbowl has two levels: the upper is part of the basin and has angel heads at the angles with wings spread over the sides; the lower part is actually part of the stem piece and is decorated with a single floral motif on each side; the stem of the base is square with chamfered angles at which are sedente lions; the flat sides are decorated with buttresses. The plinth is also square, with chamfered angles, a kneeling stone to one side. Knott (2008) reports that, as the church was declared redundant and no longer used for the cult, the font was moved to Brantham, although it was later returned to Ipswich St. Mary's again.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.0529, 1.1564
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 3′ 10.44″ N, 1° 9′ 23.04″ E
UTM: 31U 373590 5768526

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes regarding inscription]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal handle; appears modern

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
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
Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-10-26 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928