Waldringfield / Waldingafelda

Results: 16 records

B01: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - symbol - eagle - with scroll

seen here in the left panel
Scene Description: seen here in the left panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2006 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/waldring.htm] [accessed 13 October 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

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

seen here in the centre panel
Scene Description: seen here in the centre panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2006 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/waldring.htm] [accessed 13 October 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B03: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol

unidentified
Scene Description: unidentified
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2006 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/waldring.htm] [accessed 13 October 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

angel - cherub - head - 8

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2006 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/waldring.htm] [accessed 13 October 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - southeast view

Source caption: "Waldringfield All Saints church. Standing close to the road, the tower catches the eye and immediately you wonder about the date. Well, it is Tudor and has turret stairs leading to the belfry. The walls of the church have been rendered with cement but the external character has not been lost. The porch is very simple. There is a good traditional East Anglian octagonal font with evangelical symbols around the bowl. Angelic faces peer down from the corbel and cross-legged figures pray around the shaft. Everything else is reproduction or new in 1864 when the Victorians ‘restored’ the church. The nave and chancel are austere and lack any warmth or character. On the south wall is a recent memorial to Sir William Bragg F.R.S. (1971)."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Waldringfield All Saints church. Standing close to the road, the tower catches the eye and immediately you wonder about the date. Well, it is Tudor and has turret stairs leading to the belfry. The walls of the church have been rendered with cement but the external character has not been lost. The porch is very simple. There is a good traditional East Anglian octagonal font with evangelical symbols around the bowl. Angelic faces peer down from the corbel and cross-legged figures pray around the shaft. Everything else is reproduction or new in 1864 when the Victorians ‘restored’ the church. The nave and chancel are austere and lack any warmth or character. On the south wall is a recent memorial to Sir William Bragg F.R.S. (1971)."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrian S Pye, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 April 2007 by Adrian S Pye [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2127971] [accessed 13 October 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - northeast view

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 February 2012 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2804514] [accessed 13 October 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior - nave - looking east

the top of the font is visible in the foreground, left [north] side
Scene Description: the top of the font is visible in the foreground, left [north] side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 February 2012 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2804516] [accessed 13 October 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior - nave - looking west

the top of the font is visible in the right [north] bank of benches, towards the back
Scene Description: the top of the font is visible in the right [north] bank of benches, towards the back
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 February 2012 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2804520] [accessed 13 October 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

human figure - male - Green Man or woodwoose - wearing turban

one of the odd-looking cross-legged creatures identified as "beturbanned woodwoses" by S. Knott [cf. FontNotes]; appears to be smirking; hiding his hands in his beard
Scene Description: one of the odd-looking cross-legged creatures identified as "beturbanned woodwoses" by S. Knott [cf. FontNotes]; appears to be smirking; hiding his hands in his beard
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2006 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/waldring.htm] [accessed 13 October 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

human figure - female - standing - wearing cowl - right hand holding the left

seen here on the right: a woman wearing a cowl and holding her hands in the traditional symbol of grief
Scene Description: seen here on the right: a woman wearing a cowl and holding her hands in the traditional symbol of grief
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2006 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/waldring.htm] [accessed 13 October 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

human figure - male - Green Man or woodwoose - wearing turban

seen here on the left; the left hand covers the right
Scene Description: seen here on the left; the left hand covers the right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2006 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/waldring.htm] [accessed 13 October 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

human figure - male - standing

seen partially here at the extreme right
Scene Description: seen partially here at the extreme right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2006 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/waldring.htm] [accessed 13 October 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

Font ID: 02498WAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century[re-cut], Perpendicular [altered?]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, towards the W end, N side
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Notes: church fabric 14thC, much restored 19thC
Church Address: Mill Road, Waldringfield, Suffolk IP12 4PY
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Waldringfield is two miles east of the Martlesham junction of the A12, between Ipswich and Woodbridge.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Carlford [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: altered font? (re-cut?)
Font Notes:
There are three entries for Waldringfield [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TM2844/waldringfield/] [accessed 13 October 2015], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. [NB: not the same as Waldingfield Parva, although the fonts have some details in common]. A font is noted in the English Heritage entry for this church [Listing NGR: TM2821944223] (1966): "C16 octagonal font with Evangelists alternating with griffins on bowl, angels with outstretched wings below and figures of 'wild men' on stem." This is "one of the dozen finest fonts in Suffolk" (S. Knott, Knott, 1999, Waldringfield p. 2). His photograph shows an octagonal font of classic East-Anglian Perpendicular design; the basin sides are eight perfect squares containg shields alternating with what appear to be human figures (?); Mortlock identifies the figures as "Evangelistic symbols" and the shields as containing a cross on the east side, a sacred monogram on the west side and the Trinity emblem of the south side; the eight corners of the chamfer or underbowl are angel heads, their wings spreading to the sides; the pedestal is also octagonal, each alternate side containing a figure which Knott describes as "beturbanned woodwoses" (wild men) and Mortlock as being goat-legged like satyrs, while the others contain robed figures, either priests or women (Knott, 1999, ibid.); Mortlock identifies the latter as women [cf. BSI files, e-mail from Simon Knott, Dec. 27, 1999]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk] for his photographs of, and information on this font

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 385278 5767878
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.04962, 1.326998
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 2′ 58.63″ N, 1° 19′ 37.19″ E

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: round and flat, with flat cross atop; modern

REFERENCES

  • Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk Churches and their Treasures, London: Batsford, 1938
  • Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.