Bramford nr. Ipswich / Bramfort
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view of basin and cover
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view of font and cover
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view of basin and cover
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view of font and cover
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symbol - shield - blank - in a cusped hexafoil - 4
Scene Description: alternating with the angel demi-figures
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angel - demi-figure - holding object - 4
Scene Description: the one on this side holds an open book
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: "Bramford, St Mary the Virgin"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Kelly, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 21 August 2019 by Dave Kelly
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angel - demi-figure - holding crown
Scene Description: seen here in the centre panel
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - Ogee arches - cusped and crocketed - 8
Scene Description: on the sides of the stem of the pedestal base
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design element or symbol - unidentified
Scene Description: too eroded for identification now
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view of font cover - detail
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01877BRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: The top of the font-cover at Cockington, Devon, was copied from the cover at Bramford
Church / Chapel Name: Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Bramford, Ipswich IP8 4AT, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1473 748914
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located W of the A14, right outside Ipswich, on its NW side
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Bosmere [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: moved font
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for this Bramford [variante spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM1246/bramford/] [accessed 18 March 2026]; it reports "1 church. 0.66 church lands" in it. The font here is 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 [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/bramford.htm] [accessed 18 March 2026]: "During the 19th Century, the font was moved into the space beneath the tower to create a baptistery. The font is chiefly remarkable for its late 16th Century cover, which, like the one at Boxford, has doors which open outwards to give access to the water." 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). Listed in Historic England [Listing NGR: TM1273146306]: "Parish church, mediaeval [...] C15 limestone font in tower, octagonal, with emblems of evangelists on bowl and traceried stem; the early C16 oak cover is large and opulent, with a canopied image stool on each face, carved corner butresses and a crocketed dome with spike finial."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Sarah Blick for her photographs of this font and cover
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 369916 5771007
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.07434, 1.1019
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 4′ 27.62″ N, 1° 6′ 6.84″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
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, p. 289, 299
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982, p. 87
- Howard, F.E., English Church Woodwork: a Study in Craftmanship during the Mediaeval period A.D. 1250-1550, London: B.T. Batsford, 1919, p. 322
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]
- Powell-Smith, Anna, Open Domesday, 2024. URL: https://opendomesday.org.
- Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916, p. 62