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
![at the angles -- [cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1090429013_compressed.png)
Scene Description: at the angles -- [cf. Font notes]
BU01: angel - head - 8
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1090429008_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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BU02: design element - motifs - floral - 8
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1090429007_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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UB01: animal - mammal - lion - sejant
![one of four -- [cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1090429009_compressed.png)
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
Font ID: 01223IPS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1448?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (mid?), Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Evangelists' font / heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary Quay
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: 45 Foundation St, Ipswich IP4 1FW, United Kingdom
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located in the Ipswich docklands area
Font Notes:
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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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janice Tostevin for her photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 373590 5768526
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.0529, 1.1564
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 3′ 10.44″ N, 1° 9′ 23.04″ 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
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, p. 115
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982, p. 67
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 182, 220
- 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]
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. vi