Culpho / Culsola / Culsole

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 11106CUL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century [re-cut], Perpendicular [altered?]
Cognate Fonts: Similar to the one at nearby Playford
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Botolph, Culpho
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17545933
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Botulph [aka St. Botolph, Botolph of Thorney, Botulf]
Church Address: 9DH, High St, Culpho, Ipswich IP6 9BN, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1473 878104
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just NE of Ipswich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Carlford [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: recycled font: re-cut font -- disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
There are four entries for Culpho [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM2149/culpho/] [accessed 20 June 2025], one of which reports "1 church. 0.08 church lands" in it. 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, [unpaged]