Felixstowe / Felixstow
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Results: 6 records
view of basin
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symbol - ship
Scene Description: on one of the sides (W) of the basin
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symbol - Christ - the instruments of the Passion - reed and sponge
Scene Description: perhaps the lance as well? -- on the centre of the visible sides in this source
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symbol - Christ - the instruments of the Passion - seamless coat
Scene Description: on the right side of the three visible in this source
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view of church exterior - tower and south porch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Much altered in the Late-Victorian renovation
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11517FEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul with St. Andrew [aka Old Felixtowe]
Font Location in Church: Moved to the sanctuary in the 20th century
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17546645
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Address: St Andrews Road, Felixstowe, Suffolk, IP11 7EB, UK
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Old Felixstowe [a part of the Felixstowe, has no formal administrative recognition] is off the A14, in the E outskirts of Felixstowe
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Colnes
Additional Comments: damaged font / altered font (partly re-cut 19thC?) / painted font (heavily whitewashed still)
Font Notes:
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No entry for Felixstowe found in the Domesday survey; one of the entries under Walton [of which a part was later named Felixstowe], however, does report a church and church lands in it. Gough (1792) notes a baptismal font ornamented with Instruments of the Passion here. Reported in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 as "a font of curious character". Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk] illustrates the basin and comments: "The font is fascinating; carved on the eve of the Reformation, it is unlike any other I've seen around here, and the Passion emblems are most striking, as is the ship to the west. It is a shame that it has been so heavily whitewashed."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for the information on and photograph of this font and church.
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.9717, 1.3678
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 58' 17" N, 1° 22' 4" E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat, octagonal and plain
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. 190
- Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=50959] [accessed 5 February 2007]