Wantisden
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
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BBL01: design element - patterns - scalloped
![around the lower basin side [NB: the clearly noticeable small blocks that constitute the font]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1070322006_compressed.png)
Scene Description: around the lower basin side [NB: the clearly noticeable small blocks that constitute the font]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph in [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/wantisden.htm] [accessed 22 March 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
LB01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: on the lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph in [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/wantisden.htm] [accessed 22 March 2007]
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R01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph in [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/wantisden.htm] [accessed 22 March 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph in [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/wantisden.htm] [accessed 22 March 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cautley, 1938
Image Source: Cautley (1938)
Copyright Instructions: reproduction permission received from the publisher
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph in [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/wantisden.htm] [accessed 22 March 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph in [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/wantisden.htm] [accessed 22 March 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 05748WAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?) [re-cut?], Norman
Cognate Fonts: built of many small blocks, like the font at Canterbury St. Martin's, and Potterne (Wiltshire)
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17527188
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located between Eyke and Bromeswell, just NW of Woodbridge. Access from road off the B1078 near Turnstall
Additional Comments: altered font? Re-cut?
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Cautley (1938) as a cylindrical mounted baptismal font from the late 12th century; as Cautley notes, the whole font is built of small blocks of stone. Cautley (1982) suggests this may the oldest font in Suffolk, and that it may originally have been tub-shaped, re-cut at a later date [cf. Index entry for the baptismal font at Canterbury St. Martin's for another font similarly built, albeit of different shape]. The lower sides of the basin are ornamented with scalloped motif; the lower base and the upper rim basin are decorated with round mouldings; the font is otherwise devoid of ornamentation. Described and illustrated in Knott [2000?] [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/wantisden.htm] [accessed 22 March 2007], who credits 12th-century dating to Mortlock: "one of England's few surviving early medieval fonts built of blocks of stone, cemented crudely together. Mortlock thought it twelfth century. The font was smoothed and shaped after construction, with a little fill around the middle. Inside, a little lead plug protects the drain."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Suffolk Churches, for the photographs of church and font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Number of Pieces: many small blocks
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
REFERENCES
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk Churches and their Treasures, London: Batsford, 1938, fig. (??)
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982, p. 65 and pl. 48
- Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.