Burgh St. Botolph

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Results: 13 records

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B01: angel - seated - holding clothes?

Scene Description: on the east panel [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 March 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B02: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew - symbol - angel - with scroll

Scene Description: on the northeast panel [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 March 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B03: angel - seated - holding crown

Scene Description: on the north panel [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 March 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B04: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Luke - symbol - winged bull - with scroll

Scene Description: on the nortwest panel [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 March 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B05: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation - Gabriel

Scene Description: on the west panel [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 March 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B06: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion - with scroll

Scene Description: on the southwest panel [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 March 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B07: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation - Mary

Scene Description: on the south panel [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 March 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B08: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - symbol - eagle - with scroll

Scene Description: on the southeast panel [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 March 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B09: design element - architectural - buttress - crocketed pinnacle - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 16 March 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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BU01: symbol - acorn and oak leaves

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 March 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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BU02: symbol - grapes and vine leaves

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 March 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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BU03: design element - motifs - floral - rose?

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 March 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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view of font and cover - east side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 March 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11107BUR

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 off (E) the B1079, just W of Woodbridge, about 10 km NNE of Ipswich

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: ca. 1400?

Century and Period: 15th century [basin only] [re-cut] [composite font], Late Medieval [composite]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font / Evangelists' font

Cognate Fonts: many such others in the area

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janice and Robert Tostevin for their help in documenting this font, and their photographs of it

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described in Gough (1792): "remarkably low, octagon, charged with symbols of the Evangelists, an angel, another with a scroll, a third with a crown, a figure sitting at a desk." Parker (1855) notes: "The font has a good P[erpendicular] bowl on a modern pedestal." Noted in James Fielding [http://digitatlas.blogspot.com]: "a E[ast] A[anglian] font -- much recut and renewed." The font consists of the original octagonal basin raised on a replacement octagonal pedestal base, and an octagonal plinth also modern. Church notes [provided by Janice Tostevin, of Ipswich] indicate that "when it was seen by D E Davy in 1846, the carved figures in the panels were very worn and defaced"; there are traces of new stone replacement. Additional church notes inform that the stem dates from ca. 1861 and that Davy noted in 1846 that its predecessor was only 2 feet high; the base step was added in 1890 as a memorial to Henrietta Barlow. As it stands now, most of the panels of the basin are partly re-cut. An Annunciation of Gabriel to the Virgin Mary is split between the west panel (Gabriel) and the shouth panel (Mary); two seated angels, one holding a crown [cf. supra], the other holding clothes (?) occupy the east and north panels; the remaing four panels have the symbols of the four Evangelists holding scrolls: Mark's lion on the southwest, John's eagle on the southeast, Matthew's angel on the northeast, and Luke's ox on the northwest, all of them partly re-carved; the angles of the basin are decorated with adorned [pinnacled? crocketed?] buttresses, most of it original and damaged; the motifs on the underbowl angles are all modern carvings, including roses, acorns and oak leaves, and grapes and vine leaves; the stem and lower base are modern, as is the plinth. The wooden cover appears octagonal and plain, also modern.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Height of Basin Side: 40 cm [calculated]

Height of Base: 72 cm* [modern base]

Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: 50 cm wide*

Font Height (less Plinth): 112 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [measurements courtesy of Janice and Robert Tostevin - 16 March 2010]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

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; r["References"]

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