Culpho

Results: 2 records

B01: design element - motifs - floral - rose - in a quatrefoil

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

LB01: design element - architectural - buttress

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 11106CUL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Botolph
Church Patron Saints: St. Botulph [aka St. Botolph, Botolph of Thorney, Botulf]
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located just NE of Ipswich
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century [re-cut], Perpendicular [altered?]
Cognate Fonts: Similar to the one at nearby Playford
Font Notes:
Noted in Gough (1792) as a hexagonal [cf. infra] font like the one at nearby Playford but "with {roses in the compartments." Described in Parker (1855): "Font, an octagon, with quatrefoils and flowers on the bowl, and a panelled pedestal, with buttresses at the angles." The Historic Churches Preservation Tust notes a "font 15th century" in this church [source: 'Recent Grants' issue of the Grants Cttee. Meeting of 13 September 2005, in www.historicchurches.org.uk]. Noted in James Fielding [http://digitatlas.blogspot.com]: "Old font with quatrefoils on the bowl and a thickly-buttressed stem, but much recut." The font is octagonal, not hexagonal.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; p. 198
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855