Ipswich No. 3

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Results: 21 records

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B01: animal - mammal - lion - passant-gardant - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 April 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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B02: design element - architectural - buttress - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 23 April 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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BBU01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 23 April 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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BU01: human figure - head - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 23 April 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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BU02: design element - motifs - floral, foliage and fruit

Scene Description: between the heads and on the lower level of the chamfer -- [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 23 April 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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LBH01: human figure - female - head - wearing elaborate headdress

Scene Description: one of four heads at the lower base; similar but not identical to the other female

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 April 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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LBH02: human figure - female - head - wearing elaborate headdress

Scene Description: one of four heads at the lower base; similar but not identical to the other female

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 April 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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LBH03: human figure - male - bearded?

Scene Description: one of four heads at the lower base; tall hair-do or head dress

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 April 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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LBH04: human figure - male - head

Scene Description: one of four heads at the lower base; tall hair-do or head dress

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 April 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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P01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - varied

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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 23 April 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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UB01: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant - 4

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 April 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: one of the heads

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 April 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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view of basin - underbowl - detail

Scene Description: one of the heads wearing head-dress; there are others with almost identical head-dress

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 23 April 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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view of basin - underbowl - detail

Scene Description: one of the heads; here the face is almost obliterated, but the head-dress remains; notice the rosettes by the sides of the head -- [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 April 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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view of basin - underbowl - detail

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

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 April 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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view of basin - underbowl - detail

Scene Description: one of the heads; it appears to be male, with a broad face and jowls

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 April 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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view of basin - underbowl - detail

Scene Description: one of the heads; there are others with almost identical head-dress

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 April 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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view of basin - underbowl - detail

Scene Description: one of the heads; the third with this type of head-dress -- [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 April 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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view of basin - underbowl - detail

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

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 April 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 April 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 April 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01882IPS

Church/Chapel: Parish Church St. Mary-le-Tower [aka Ipswich Minster]

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Tower St, Ipswich IP1 3BE, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 7514 875482

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located in Ipswich city centre

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janice Tostevin for her help with the documentation on, and her photographs of this font and cover

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described in Parker (1855) as a rich font of the Perpendicular period, "with a lion rampant on each panel of the upper part, and demi-lions erect supporting the stem", a rather inaccurate description [cf. infra]. Bond (1908) cites that "in 1719 there was paid at St Mary le Tower, Ipswich, 'to Mr Hardy for a new cover of the Funt, 18s.'" [NB: a recent -April 2009- enquiry by a local source with the Ipswich St. Mary-le-Tower's PCC notes that there is no local information on the whereabouts of the 1719 font cover mentioned above]. The baptismal font consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides deeply carved with lions passant-gardant, each with a different expression on the face; moulding at the top rim; buttresses at the angles; the upper level of the underbowl has human heads, both male and female, at the angles, some wearing sophisticated head-dress; foliage or fruit motifs between the heads; the level below, still on the underbowl, foliage and floral motifs alternate; the octagonal base has four sedente-regardant lions at 90-degree angles;below these. on the lower base, four human heads, apparently two male and two female; the lower base has graded moulding; the font stands on a three-step plinth the vertical sides of which are: decorated with round quatrefoils at the top step, cusped quatrefoils on the middle step, and plain on the bottom step. Noted and illustrated in Knott (2008?)

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.0584, 1.1554

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 3′ 30.24″ N, 1° 9′ 19.44″ E

UTM: 31U 373537 5769139

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1719

Material: wood,

Notes: In 1719 there was paid "to Mr. Hardy for a new cover for the Funt, 18s." (Bond, 1908: 307) [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

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