Bramford nr. Ipswich

INFORMATION

FontID: 01877BRA
Church/Chapel: Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Bramford, Ipswich IP8 4AT, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1473 748914
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located right outside Ipswich, on its NW side
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Cognate Fonts: The top of the font-cover at Cockington, Devon, was copied from the cover at Bramford
Noted in Parker (1855) as a fine Perpendicular font "with a lofty cover". The 'Building news and architectural review' (vol. 9, 1862: 224) reports the font having been recently moved to the space beneath the tower. Stabb (1908-1916) informs that the restored cover at Cockington, in Devon, got a modern top "copied from an old font cover at Bramford, in Suffolk". Bond (1908) rates its lid among several "fine examples of Gothic covers", but does not mention the font at all. Cautlet (1982), too, notes the cover. Both font and cover are illustrated in Knott's Suffolk Churches entry for Bramford. The font is octagonal all over and has shields on the basin sides, as well as other decorative motifs on the basin and base; the font cover is of the rim-buffet type, with carved detail and crocketed upper dome. The font-cover is noted in Howard & Crossley (1919).

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.07434, 1.1019
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 4′ 27.62″ N, 1° 6′ 6.84″ E
UTM: 31U 369916 5771007

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Date: 16th-century?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982
Howard, F.E., English Church Woodwork: a Study in Craftmanship during the Mediaeval period A.D. 1250-1550, London: B.T. Batsford, 1919
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855
Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916