Ilketshall St. John

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B01: coat of arms - Mowbray

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B02: coat of arms - Bigot

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B03: symbol - shield - hanging shield - blank

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 23 May 2009 by Brokentaco [www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/4981287159/] [accessed 1 March 2012]

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B04: design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 23 May 2009 by Brokentaco [www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/4981287159/] [accessed 1 March 2012]

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B05: design element - motifs - floral - rosette

Scene Description: around the frames of the sides [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 23 May 2009 by Brokentaco [www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/4981287159/] [accessed 1 March 2012]

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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding

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UB01: animal - mammal - lion - sejant - 4

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UB02: design element - architectural - buttress - 4

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 July 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/ilkjohn.html] [accessed 29 October 2009]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 July 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/ilkjohn.html] [accessed 29 October 2009]

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: behind the font is the narrow space of the west tower

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2009 by Brokentaco [www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/4981287159/] [accessed 1 March 2012]

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view of font cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11724ILK

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: Low Road, Ilketshall St John, Suffolk, NR34 8JJ

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 3 km SSE of Bungay

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich [formerly in the diocese of Norwich]

Historical Region: Hundred of Wangford

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Cognate Fonts: similar to the font at nearby Ellough [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Suckling (1846-1848): "The font is octangular, and bears the arms of Mowbray and Bigot." Suckling (ibid.) also notes: "The advowson of St. John's Church was conveyed in the year 1267, by Sir James de Ilketshall, with one acre of land, which he held of Robert de Meynwaryn, to the Prioress of Bungay", although the first recorded rector of St. John's is given as "Sim. De Birston", in 1301. In Parker (1855) after Suckling. Illustrated in Knott (2008). The octagonal basin has large floral motifs [including a Tudor rose] alternating with hanging blank shields, the frames decorated with tiny rosettes, much like the basin at nearby Ellough; unlike the latter, this font retains its original pedestal base with its seated lions and buttresses, which the former probably had originally. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, box-like, with metal decoration and ring handle; 19th-century? [NB: the font, as it appears now [July 2008] has blank shields, which may have been re-carved]. The font is similar, though not identical, to the others in this group of Ilketshall churches [cf. corresponding entries in the Index]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52°26'15.79" E, 1°29'1.14" N

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century?

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-10-29 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.

Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855

Suckling, Alfred, The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk, with genealogical and architectural notices of its several towns and villages, London: John Weale [...], 1846-1848