Risby nr. Bury St. Edmunds

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Results: 12 records

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B01: angel - holding scroll

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 June 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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B02: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 June 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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B03: animal - bird - pelican - plucking its breast - feeding its young - chicks in nest

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 June 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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B04: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew - symbol - angel - with scroll

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B05: animal - fabulous animal or monster - griffin?

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B06: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Luke - symbol - winged bull - with scroll

Scene Description: now the wings and scroll very damaged and hardly discernible

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 June 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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B07: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation?

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 June 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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B08: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - symbol - eagle - with scroll

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design element - architectural - pedestal or shelf - 4

Scene Description: the figures now missing

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - tracery

Scene Description: on alternate sides of the stem

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01890RIS

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Giles

Church Patron Saints: St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]

Church Location: School Road, Risby, Suffolk IP28 6RQ, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 7 km NW of Bury St. Edmunds

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich

Historical Region: Hundred of Thingoe

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Evangelists' font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janice Tostevin for her photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for this Risby in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TL8066/risby/] [accessed 10 June 2014], one of which reports a church and churchlands in it. Parker (1855) reports a Perpendicular font in this church. Noted by Rev. W.F. Francis in volume 5 of the 'Ilam Anastatic Drawing Society' (1864?) [www.archive.org/details/ilamanastasicdra05ilamuoft] [accessed 7 July 2009] as a font of the time of Henry VI (1422-1460). Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Noted in Mortlock (1988- ). Described and illustrated in Knott (2004?): "The font is tremendous, and the Annunciation scene on it one of the finest in Suffolk. Mortlock argues that the strange object behind her is a dog, but I can't see it myself. We know that the Anglicans plastered over fonts in the 1540s rather than destroying the imagery, but this one is interesting because the plaster remained until the 1890s." The font consists of an octagonal basin decorated with deeply-carved panels in which the symbols of the four Evangelists alternate with four other motifs [Left->Right]: 1)angel holding scroll; 2)winged lion; 3)pelican feedinbg its young; 4)angel holding scroll; 5)fabulous animal; 6)ox, very damaged, probably winged originally; 7)seated female (?) figure with left hand on a book on a desk; identified as an Annunciation scene in Mortlock and Knott [cf. supra]; 8)eagle holding scroll; the underbowl chamfer is plain; the stem is octagonal, with tracery on four of the sides alternating with sides on which the pedestal or shelf remains but the figures originally intended to stand on them have disappeared (?); the lower base is square and moulded. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with moulded edges; appears modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.265953, 0.63974

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 15′ 57.43″ N, 0° 38′ 23.06″ E

UTM: 31U 338940 5793243

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

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: 2009-07-30 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.

Mortlock, Derek P., The Popular Guide to Suffolk Churches, 1988-

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