Ilketshall St. Andrew

Main image for Ilketshall St. Andrew

Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008

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Results: 8 records

B01: symbol - shield - hanging shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - in a circle - in a square - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 9 July 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/ilkandrew.html] [accessed 29 October 2009]
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BBL01: design element - patterns - crenellated

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 9 July 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/ilkandrew.html] [accessed 29 October 2009]
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UB01: design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases - 8

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 9 July 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/ilkandrew.html] [accessed 29 October 2009]
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UB02: design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 9 July 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/ilkandrew.html] [accessed 29 October 2009]
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UB03: design element - motifs - quatrefoil

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 9 July 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/ilkandrew.html] [accessed 29 October 2009]
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view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 July 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/ilkandrew.html] [accessed 29 October 2009]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font and cover visible at the far (west) end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 July 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/ilkandrew.html] [accessed 29 October 2009]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 July 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/ilkandrew.html] [accessed 29 October 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

Font ID: 11726ILK
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Notes: round-tower church -- very interesting wall paintings of the Wheel of Fortune
Church Address: Ilketshall St Andrew, Suffolk, NR34 8HX, UK
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A144, 4-5 km SE of Bungay
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Wangford
Font Notes:
Noted in Suckling (1846-1848): "The font is octangular, with eight plain shields." Suckling (ibid.) also notes the first recorded vicar of St. Andrew, William Atte Welle de Dychingham, in 1327. In Parker (1855), probably after Suckling. Illustrated in Knott (2008). The octagonal basin has eight blank shields inscribed in quatrefoil-in-a-circle-in-a-square panels, with a band of crenellation below; the base is an odd one for this type of font, a cluster of columns with trefoil and quatrefoil motifs between them, and moulded capitals and bases. The wooden cover is octagonal, an octagonal platform with straight ribs converging on a Latin cross finial; appears modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this church and font

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 397911 5810071

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
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]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
  • Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]
  • 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, vol. 1: 117