Stradbroke / Statebroc / Stetebroc / Stradbrook / Stradbrooke
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Results: 7 records
B01: angel - holding shield - coat of arms - See of Norwich
![three mitres; seen here on the right panel [cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/others/permission_not_available.jpg)
Scene Description: three mitres; seen here on the right panel [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Brokentaco, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 16 March 2007 by Brokentaco [http://www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/432397027/] [accessed 23 October 2009]
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B02: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol - 4
Scene Description: the angel of Matthew seen here in the front panel
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P01: inscription
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/stradbroke.html]
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UB01: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant - 4
Scene Description: alternating with wildmen on the sides of the shaft
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 16 March 2007 by Brokentaco [http://www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/432397027/] [accessed 23 October 2009]
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UB01: angel - head - 8
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UB02: human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose - 4?
Scene Description: alternating with sedente lions on the sides of the shaft
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Brokentaco, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 16 March 2007 by Brokentaco [http://www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/432397027/] [accessed 23 October 2009]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11527STR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints, Stradbroke
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17535670
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Church St, Stradbroke, Eye IP21 5JD, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1379 388493
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B1118, near Eye, about 40 km N of Ipswich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Bishop's [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: altered font / whitewashed still on it -- disappeared font(s)? {the one(s) from the two Domesday-time churches here)
Font Notes:
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There are two entried for Stradbroke [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM2373/stradbroke/] [accessed 22 June 2025]; one of them reports "2 churches. 0.33 church lands" in it. Described in Gough (1792): "octagon, adorned with angels holding shields whited over; lions squatted and wild men standing on the shaft." Parker (1855) mentions "Evangelists on the bowl, and a nearly defaced inscription on the thread of the step" on this font. Listed in Cautley (1982) as 15th-century font bearing an inscription. Knott (1999?) notes the inscription on the lower step of the plinth: "Johannes Smyth et Joanne Rouse". [NB: only four of the sides of the basin have angels holding shields, and, of these, at least one shows an emblem with the three mitres of the See of Norwich. To its left is a full figure of an angel holding a scroll, perhaps the symbol of Matthew]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for the information on and photograph of this font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Location: on the upper surface of the lower step of the plinth
Inscription Text: "Johannes Smyth et Joanne Rouse"
Inscription Notes: perhaps the donors of the font?
Inscription Source: Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/stradbroke.html]
REFERENCES
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982, p. 68
- 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
- Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]