Ilketshall St. Andrew

Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Standing permission
Results: 8 records
B01: symbol - shield - hanging shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - in a circle - in a square - 8
BBL01: design element - patterns - crenellated
UB01: design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases - 8
UB02: design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8
UB03: design element - motifs - quatrefoil
view of church exterior - southeast view
view of church interior - nave - looking east
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]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 11726ILK
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Ilketshall St Andrew, Suffolk, NR34 8HX
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located near the Norfolk border
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Wangford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
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 his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: round-tower church -- very interesting wall paintings of the Wheel of Fortune
Font Notes: Click to view 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.
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]. 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