Boxford / Boxford nr. Ipswich
Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2007
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 25 January 2007 by Janice Tostevin
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design element - motifs - tracery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 25 January 2007 by Janice Tostevin
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 25 January 2007 by Janice Tostevin
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view of church exterior - southeast end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
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 and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 January 2007 by Janice Tostevin
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inscription
![on ribbons or scrolls painted on the inside of the cover [cf. Inscription area for texts]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1090409051_compressed.png)
Scene Description: on ribbons or scrolls painted on the inside of the cover [cf. Inscription area for texts]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 January 2007 by Janice Tostevin
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view of font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 25 January 2007 by Janice Tostevin
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 25 January 2007 by Janice Tostevin
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 05859BOX
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century [stem only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, S side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Church Street, Boxford, Suffolk CO10 5DU
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
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 Notes:
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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.
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
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 353081 5766240
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.027301, 0.858484
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 1′ 38.29″ N, 0° 51′ 30.54″ E
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 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 Notes: Transcribed in S. Knott
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, p. 87 and pl. 80
- James, M. R., Suffolk and Norfolk, London, Toronto: Dent & Sons, 1930, p. 54
- Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]