Boxford / Boxford nr. Ipswich

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 25 January 2007 by Janice Tostevin

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 25 January 2007 by Janice Tostevin

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design element - motifs - tracery

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 25 January 2007 by Janice Tostevin

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inscription

Scene Description: on ribbons or scrolls painted on the inside of the cover [cf. Inscription area for texts]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 January 2007 by Janice Tostevin

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view of church exterior - southeast end

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/boxford.htm] [accessed 9 April 2009]

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view of font

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 25 January 2007 by Janice Tostevin

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 January 2007 by Janice Tostevin

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view of font cover

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 25 January 2007 by Janice Tostevin

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05859BOX

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Church Street, Boxford, Suffolk CO10 5DU

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: "Just off the A1071 Ipswich to Sudbury road" [cf. Simon Knott, who also reckons The Fleece, the local pub, is one of Suffolk's best]

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich

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

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century [stem only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, and to Janice Tostevin for their photographs of church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No entry found for this Boxford in the Domesday survey. Parker (1855) notes that "the bowl of the font is modern, but a panelled pedestal remains". James (1930) writes: "The font has a fixed cover (17th cent.) opening at the side and painted with texts within". The font and its cover are illustrated in Knott (2007?). The stone font is octagonal unmounted, and stands on a polygonal plinth with "priest's stone"; the sides are ornamented with blind Gothic arches. The font cover is of the "rim-buffet" type with two volumes: the lower one has vertical sides with doors that open to provide access to the basin well and to the painted inside [scrolls inscribed with Gospel texts - cf. Inscription area below] of the cover; the upper volume is a Jacobean-type dome with a cross finial. The octagonal pedestal is covered in travery patterns all around; the basin and lower base are moulded and probably modern; the plinth is definitely modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.027301, 0.858484

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 1′ 38.29″ N, 0° 51′ 30.54″ E

UTM: 31U 353081 5766240

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: one?

Font Shape: octagonal (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: English

Inscription Notes: Transcribed in S. Knott

Inscription Location: on the inside of the font cover

Inscription Text: 1. "HOW CAN A MAN BE BORNE WHICH IS OLDE?" 2. "EXCEPT A MAN BE BORNE OF WATER AND OF THE SPIRIT, HE CANNOT ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD" 3. "IF I WASH THE[e] NOT THOU HAST NO PART OF ME"

Inscription Source: Knott (2007?)

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th century?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. Font notes]

REFERENCES

Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982

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: 2009-04-09 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.

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