Wilby nr. Ipswich

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Results: 9 records

B01: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - sitting - with symbol - 4

B02: design element - architectural - arcade - Ogee arches - 8

BU01: angel - cherub - 8

Scene Description: on the underbowl angles

LB01: Apostle or saint - unidenitfied - 8

Scene Description: one of them either St. Paul or St. James [cf. Font notes]

view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of font - west side

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view of font and cover - south side

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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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view of font cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11528WIL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located on the B1118, 35-40 km N of Ipswich
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Evangelists' font
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.
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".

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
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: 2006-02-26 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
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855