Felixstowe / Felixstow

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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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symbol - ship

Scene Description: on one of the sides (W) of the basin

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view of basin

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Much altered in the Late-Victorian renovation

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view of church exterior - tower and south porch

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11517FEL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul with St. Andrew [aka Old Felixtowe]
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Location: St Andrews Road, Felixstowe, Suffolk, IP11 7EB
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
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
Font Location in Church: Moved to the sanctuary in the 20th century
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
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.
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."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.9717, 1.3678
Church 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; r["References"]
Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2006-02-23 00:00:00. 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