Snape nr. Ipswich / Snapes
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Results: 36 records
B01: God - Trinity (seated God the Father; Christ on the Cross; Holy Dove)
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B02: human figure - kneeling - donor? - 2
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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B03: angel - holding censer - 2
Scene Description: in the upper angles of the Trinity scene
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B04: angel - holding chalice and scroll
Scene Description: to the right of the Trinity panel
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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
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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
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B07: Virgin Mary - crowned
Scene Description: on the fiftth panel after Trinity - Angel - prophet - balding prophet
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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BBU01: design element - patterns - crenellated
Scene Description: around the upper side
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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
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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
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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
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LB01: animal - mammal - lion - head
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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
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LBF04: animal - fabulous animal or monster - griffin or harpy?
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LBF05: human figure - male - crowned - seated - with object - unidentified object
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LBF06: animal - fabulous animal or monster - harpy?
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LBF07: cleric - bishop - standing - with object
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LBF08: animal - fabulous animal or monster - harpy?
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P01: design element - architectural - window - quatrefoiled - 16
Scene Description: a pair on each of the plinth sides
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Bond (1908)
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: the mitred head
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: the head of one of the prophets(?)
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © mym, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 April 2005 by mym [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4672]
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view of font
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Image Source: engraving in James (1930)
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Bond (1908)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2009
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view of font
Scene Description: the engraving of an 1811 drawing of the font as seen inside the church, by the font
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view of font
Scene Description: the font as portrayed in 1811
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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
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
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:
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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