Ipswich No. 7

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Results: 28 records

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B01: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Luke - symbol - winged bull - with scroll

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 February 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B02: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - unidentified

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B03: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew - symbol - angel - with scroll

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B04: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - unidentified

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B05: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - symbol - eagle - with scroll

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B06: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - unidentified

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B07: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion - with scroll

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B08: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - unidentified

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B09: symbol - initials - FS [Fitz Semple]

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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B10: symbol - initials - IK [John Keeble]

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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BU01: angel - cherub - 8

Scene Description: much damaged

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BU02: design element - patterns - crenellated

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BU03: design element - motifs - floral - square flower - 8

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P01: design element - motifs - varied

Scene Description: on the sides of the three-step 19th-century plinth

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UB01: human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose - with club

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UB02: animal - mammal - lion - sejant

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UB03: human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose - with club

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 February 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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UB04: animal - mammal - lion - sejant

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 February 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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UB05: human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose - with club

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UB06: animal - mammal - lion - sejant

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UB07: human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose - with club

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UB08: animal - mammal - lion - sejant

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: on the lower frame, two sets of initials: FS on the left, IK on the right

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/stclementipswich.htm] [accessed 26 October 2009]

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view of font and cover

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view of font cover

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view of font cover - detail

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view of font cover - finial

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01885CLE

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Clement [redundant]

Church Patron Saints: St. Clement

Church Location: Church Ln, Ipswich IP4 1JH, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located on Fore Street, near the ring road [it is redundant and used for civic purposes]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font / Evangelists' font / heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, and to Janice Tostevin, for their photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Parker (1855) as a a good Perpendicular font, "an octagon and very rich; the cover is plain but well carved". Listed in Cox (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period/style. Described and illustrated in Knott (2006): "The font, reset by the Victorians in the westward extension of the south aisle, is a typical East Anglian rural 15th century font, with angels on the bowl and lions and wild men around the stem". The sides of the basin alternate angels holding charged shields (?), and the symbols of the four Evangelists on alternate sides; cherub heads at the underbowl angles, with a crenellated band, and a third level with floral motifs below; woodwoses and seated lions alternate on the sides of the pedestal base; much worn and damaged, probably by the iconoclast hands of the Reformation. The font is raised on a three-step plinth with decorated sides, probably of the 19th century. Octagonal pyramidal wooden cover with crocketed arrises; 17th-century?. Two sets of initials appear carved on the frame of one of the basin sides, on the lower surface; the local verger (?). John Andreason, informs that they are the initials of Fitz Semple and John Keble, who restored (?) the font in 1662.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.0539, 1.1618

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 3′ 14.04″ N, 1° 9′ 42.48″ E

UTM: 31U 373963 5768628

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: letters

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: on the frame of one of the basin sides

Inscription Text: [FS JK]

Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes and image area]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-century?

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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