Wilby nr. Ipswich / Wilebey / Wilebi
Results: 9 records
view of font and cover - south side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/wilby.htm
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view of font - west side
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Image Source: digital photograph in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/wilby.htm
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/wilby.htm
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the font right at the west end of the nave
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Image Source: digital photograph in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/wilby.htm
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view of font cover
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/wilby.htm
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11528WIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Evangelists' font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary, Wilby
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17526213
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Wilby, Eye IP21 5LE, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1986 743339
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B1118, 35-40 km N of Ipswich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Bishop's [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There are four entries for this Wilby [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM2472/wilby/] [accessed 22 June 2025]; one of them reports "1 church. 0.06 church lands" in it. Described in Gough (1792): "[the font] has the four Evangelists sitting, and resting on their respective symbols before their knees." Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports "a richly-sculptured font" in this church. Parker (1855) mentions "angels around the pedestal and bowl, and on the cardinal faces of the latter the emblems of the Evangelists." Noted in Cautley (1982). Knott (2006?) notes that "as well as the four evangelists, it includes St Paul, and a figure that Mortlock thought might be St James".
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.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal pyramidal, with decorated sides and lower band
REFERENCES
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982, p. 67
- 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.
- 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=51407] [accessed 19 March 2007]
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]