Snape nr. Ipswich / Snapes

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B01: God - Trinity (seated God the Father; Christ on the Cross; Holy Dove)

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken13 August 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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B02: human figure - kneeling - donor? - 2

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken13 August 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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B03: angel - holding censer - 2

Scene Description: in the upper angles of the Trinity scene

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken13 August 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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B04: angel - holding chalice and scroll

Scene Description: to the right of the Trinity panel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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B05: Old Testament - the book of Jonah - Jonah - with scroll or banderole - with scroll or banderole - with books?

Scene Description: second panel to the right after the Trinity and the angel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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B06: Old Testament - the book of Jonah - Jonah - with scroll or banderole - with object

Scene Description: on the fourth panel after Trinity - Angel - prophet

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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B07: Virgin Mary - crowned

Scene Description: on the fiftth panel after Trinity - Angel - prophet - balding prophet

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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B08: cleric - monk or priest - with scroll or banderole

Scene Description: on the sixth panel after Trinity - Angel - prophet - balding prophet - crowned Virgin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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B09: cleric - bishop - wearing mitre - with scroll

Scene Description: on the seventh panel after Trinity - Angel - prophet - balding prophet - crowned Virgin -- cleric

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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B10: Old Testament - the book of Jonah - Jonah - with scroll or banderole

Scene Description: on the eighth panel after Trinity - Angel - prophet - balding prophet - crowned Virgin -- cleric - bishop

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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B11: symbol - scroll

Scene Description: it runs all around the basin sides, beginning and ending in the panel with the Trinity; may have been painted originally

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 20 September 2008 by Janice Tostevin

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B12: design element - motifs - floral - square flower

Scene Description: several of them; in some of the niches in which the basin figures appear

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 20 September 2008 by Janice Tostevin

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BBU01: design element - patterns - crenellated

Scene Description: around the upper side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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BU01: angel - head - 8

Scene Description: one on each corner of the underbowl chamfer, its wings crossing with the next angel's on the sides

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 13 August 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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BU02: design element - patterns - crenellated

Scene Description: on the underbowl chamfer, between the angel heads at the top and the flowers at the bottom

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 13 August 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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

Scene Description: some square, some round; on the third level of the underbowl chamfer; one on each side

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 13 August 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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LB01: animal - mammal - lion - head

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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LB02: inscription

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LB03: inscription

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LBF01: human figure - male - crowned - seated - with object - unidentified object

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LBF02: angel

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LBF03: cleric - bishop - wearing mitre - seated

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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LBF04: animal - fabulous animal or monster - griffin or harpy?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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LBF05: human figure - male - crowned - seated - with object - unidentified object

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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LBF06: animal - fabulous animal or monster - harpy?

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LBF07: cleric - bishop - standing - with object

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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LBF08: animal - fabulous animal or monster - harpy?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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P01: design element - architectural - window - quatrefoiled - 16

Scene Description: a pair on each of the plinth sides

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Bond (1908)

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the mitred head

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 20 September 2008 by Janice Tostevin

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the head of one of the prophets(?)

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 20 September 2008 by Janice Tostevin

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 April 2005 by mym [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4672]

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view of font

Image Source: engraving in James (1930)

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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Bond (1908)

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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Scene Description: the engraving of an 1811 drawing of the font as seen inside the church, by the font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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Scene Description: the font as portrayed in 1811

Image Source: engraving by John Greig "for the Antiquarian & Topographical Cabinet from a drawing by E.D.S. Published by W. Clarke, New Bond Street & J. Carpenter, Old Bond Street. January 1st 1811"

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01891SNA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: Farnham Rd, Saxmundham IP17 1QW, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1728 688999

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located on the A1094, about 6 km W of the coast at Aldeburgh, 25-30 km ENE of Ipswich

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janice Tostevin, for the information on and photographs of this font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted and illustrated in Storer (1807-1811): "The church of Snape is dedicated to St. John the Baptist, and contains a very ancient and highly-ornamented Stone Font. The figures round the pillar which supports the Font are an assemblage of kings, prelates, and non-descript birds, standing on pedestals. The Font is a sexagon, and has a pillar at each angle, and a figure between each pillar, every alternate figure being crowned: the others in the priest's dress, and the whole of them bearing a scroll, the characters upon which is now illegible." The engraving of this font was made by John Greig "for the Antiquarian & Topographical Cabinet from a drawing by E.D.S. Published by W. Clarke, New Bond Street & J. Carpenter, Old Bond Street. January 1st 1811" [NB: a copy of this illustration can be found inside the church, by the font]. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports: "The church contains an hexagonal font, much enriched, in the later English style" The same hexagonal shape is quoted in Parker (1855) after Rickman.[NB: the font is actually octagonal]. Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as being of typical East-Anglian 15th-century design; the octagonal basin has panels with groups representing a Trinity: God the Father flanked by censing angels, holding in His lap the Crucified; the underbowl has a band of angels and then a band of flower ornamentation; there are eight figures round the pedestal base [cf. infra for suggested identification]; the lower plinth is also octagonal with two quatrefoils on each side. Listed in Cox (1907). In James (1930), with an engraving. A sketch of this font from 1848 is reported among the papers of Sir John G. Wilkinson kept in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Described in Knott as "a great treasure, one of the most beautiful fonts in the county. It bears a dedicatory inscription to the Mey family, and dates from the late 15th century. Strange animals lurk around the foot of it; the stem bears the Evangelists with their symbols [cf. infra], interspeded with kings. But the most animated figures are those on the bowl. Seven of them hold a long scroll that goes right around the bowl. The eighth is a rare representation of the Holy Trinity, which was particularly circunscribed by iconoclasts in the 16th and 17th centuries [...] It shows God the Father seated on his throne, with the crucified Son held in front of him. The Spirit descends in the form of a dove. On either side kneel the donors of the font. Davy, visiting in the 1830s, said that the 'whitewash' had been recently removed. Perhaps what he meant was that the figures had been plastered over, which would have explained its survival." There are at least three prophets (?) seated and holding the scroll, as well as one cleric, a bishop, probably; the female crowned figure could be the enthroned Virgin. The figures that alternate with the crowned kings on the stem are damaged but do not appear to be the symbols of the Evangelists [cf. supra]; one is indeed an angel, but the other three look like griffons or harpies, winged and with bird-like claws; they all have a scroll on them that may have had text painted on it originally.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.1806, 1.50186

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 10′ 50.16″ N, 1° 30′ 6.7″ E

UTM: 31U 397569 5782183

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Text: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Source: [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

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.

Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831

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

Storer, James Sargant, The Antiquarian and Topographical cabinet; containing a series of elegant views of the most interesting objects of curiosity in Great Britain, London: Published for the proprietors by W. Clarke, 1807-1811

Wilkinson, John Gardner, Catalogue of the papers of Sir John Gardner Wilkinson, 1797-1875, Oxford: Bodleian Library, Dept. of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts, 1997