Ipswich No. 4

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B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - Madonna and Child

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2012 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B02: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation - 3 figures

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B03: 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: Virgin Mary - coronation in heaven

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B06: Virgin Mary - enthroned in 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 - 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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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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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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design element - motifs - floral - flower - 8

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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 - 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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design element - patterns - tracery

Scene Description: a narrow border of it all around under the upper rim

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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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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 March 2009 by Adrian S Pye [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2102073] [accessed 15 June 2012]

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view of font - east side

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view of font and cover

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Simon Knott in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/ipsmatt.html

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01883MAT

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Matthew

Church Patron Saints: St. Matthew

Church Location: Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 2EX

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located in the city centre

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the N aisle

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font

Cognate Fonts: Other East Anglia fonts

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for the information on and photographs of this font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.058631, 1.14645

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 3′ 31.07″ N, 1° 8′ 47.22″ E

UTM: 31U 372924 5769181

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

Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk Churches and their Treasures, London: Batsford, 1938

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

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

Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2006-04-15 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.

Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855