Ipswich No. 4
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Results: 33 records
B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - Madonna and Child
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B02: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation - 3 figures
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B03: New Testament - Virgin Mary - in a Mandorla - Clothed in the Sun - four angels holding the Mandorla
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B04: New Testament - Public life of Christ - baptism of Christ
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B05: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Virgin Mary - coronation of Mary in Heaven
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B06: New Testament - Virgin Mary - crowned - Queen of Heaven - to the right of God - Christ in Majesty
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B07: design element - motifs - foliage or plant - Ogee foliage or plant
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B08: design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose - in a cusped panel
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LB01: angel - orant - showing wings
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LB02: Apostle or saint - St. Mary Magdalene
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LB03: Apostle or saint - Apostles - Evangelist - St. John
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LB04: Apostle or saint - St. Stephen? - holding stones?
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LBF01: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew - symbol - angel - with scroll
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LBF02: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion - with scroll
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LBF03: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Luke - symbol - winged bull
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LBF04: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - symbol - eagle
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UB01: angel - cherub
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UB02: angel - cherub
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UB03: angel - cherub
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UB04: angel - cherub
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UB05: angel - cherub
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UB06: angel - cherub
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UB07: angel - cherub
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view of font - east side
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view of font and cover
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design element - motifs - floral - flower - 8
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design element - architectural - niche - crocketed and cusped - 8
Scene Description: one at each angle of the basin, containing a praying figure
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human figure - standing - praying - in a niche
Scene Description: some female, some male, standing on a column
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design element - patterns - tracery
Scene Description: a narrow border of it all around under the upper rim
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design element - motifs - floral - rosette
Scene Description: several of them on each of the sides that frame the scenes
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design element - architectural - arcade - Ogee arches - cusped and crocketed
Scene Description: they serve as frame to the six scenes on the basin sides
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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design element - patterns - crenellated
Scene Description: the top of the crenalltion serves as the stand for the human figures and the Evangelists' symbols
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01883MAT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font
Cognate Fonts: Other East Anglia fonts
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Matthew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the N aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Matthew
Church Address: Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 2EX
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located in the city centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Additional Comments: [NB: icono program updated 9 April 2015 a/p HST's indications]
Font Notes:
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Parker (1855) notes the font as: "octagonal, panelled, and very rich". Bond (1908) notes only the font cover: "Fine example of Gothic font cover [...] surmounted by a figure of the patron saint [i.e., St Matthew]". Described and illustrated in Cautley (1938). A richly carved font of the High Gothic style consisting of an octagonal basin that includes a scene on each of the sides; the underbowl or chamfer area is decorated with the angel heads at the angles, and floral motifs on the panels below, as is typical of this font design; the base is square-to-octagonal, with the four Evangelists' symbols at the angles, and four standing human figures, one of them an angel, holding unidentified objects, on the sides, standing on a crenellated lower base. Described and fully illustrated in Knott's Suffolk Churches as "a treasure of national importance [...] quite unlike any other in Suffolk, [...] one of the finest 15th century fonts in England", the scenes identified in this source as: "Baptism of Christ, Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin, the Adoration of the Magi, the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, the Coronation of the Blessed Virgin, the Mother of God enthroned"; the remaing two panels contain 1) a large Tudor rose in a cusped panel, and 2)a large Ogee floral motif; the scenes above are housed in Ogee arches with crocketed pinnacles; each angle of the basin has a niche with a praying figure in it. The order of the scenes [L->R] is not sequential: 1)Adoration of the Magi; 2)Annunciation; 3)Assumption; 4)Baptism of Christ; 5)Coronation of the Virgin; 6)Mary Queen of Heaven; 7)Ogee foliage motif; 8)Tudor rose.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for the information on and photographs of this font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 372924 5769181
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.058631, 1.14645
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 3′ 31.07″ N, 1° 8′ 47.22″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: Gothic
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes] appears painted/gilded
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 285, 289 (on font cover)
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk Churches and their Treasures, London: Batsford, 1938, fig. 66a
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 220
- Index of Medieval Art, The Index of Medieval Art, Index of Christian Art, Princeton, [s.d.]. URL: https://theindex.princeton.edu/.
- James, M. R., Suffolk and Norfolk, London, Toronto: Dent & Sons, 1930, p. 85
- 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]