Grundisburgh / Grundisborough
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
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Results: 11 records
B01: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant - 4
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Image Source: digital photograph in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/grundsburgh.html
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B02: angel - holding shield - 4
Scene Description: the shields are now blank, and some of the angels' heads have been broken off
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Image Source: digital photograph in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/grundsburgh.html
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BU01: angel - cherub - 8
Scene Description: one at each angle of the upper underbowl volume
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Image Source: digital photograph in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/grundsburgh.html
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BU02: design element - motifs - floral - 8
Scene Description: "roses and lilies"? [cf. Font notes] -- one on each side of the upper underbowl volume, between the cherubs
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Image Source: digital photograph in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/grundsburgh.html
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BU03: design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: around the lower underbowl volume [it may be a vine, rather that simple foliage?]
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Image Source: digital photograph in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/grundsburgh.html
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LB01: animal - mammal - lion - sejant - 4
Scene Description: standing on a platform [the front of which may have had a shield symbol now defaced?], alternating with buttresses
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Image Source: digital photograph in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/grundsburgh.html
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LB02: design element - architectural - buttress - crocketed pinnacle - 4
Scene Description: alternating with the sedente lions
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Image Source: digital photograph in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/grundsburgh.html
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P01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil
Scene Description: all around the sides of the plinth steps
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Image Source: digital photograph in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/grundsburgh.html
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/grundsburgh.html
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view of font
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Image Source: digital photograph in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/grundsburgh.html
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view of font in context
Scene Description: nave, looking west
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Image Source: digital photograph in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/grundsburgh.html
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11531GRU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
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 off the B1079, N of Ipswich, W of Woodbridge
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic 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.
Font Notes:
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Described in Gough (1792): "octagon, with lions sitting, and angels holding shields alternately, and on the shaft lions sitting alternately at the angles; a border of roses and lilies between." Described in Parker (1855): "Font, an octagon, with panelled bowl". A recent image of the font can be found in www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/grundsburgh.html
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
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. 198
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.
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855