Shipmeadow / Schippe-meadowe / Scipmedu / Scitmetdua / Shepemeadow

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view of church exterior - north view

former church, now a private residence [cf. FontNotes]
Scene Description: former church, now a private residence [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/shipmeadow1.jpg] [accessed 29 February 2012]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

Font ID: 11729SHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Former Parish Church of St. Bartholomew [a private residence since the 1970s]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Barthlomew [earlier, at least until 1478, St. Mary]
Church Address: The Hill, Shipmeadow, Suffolk NR34 8HL, UK [now a private residence]
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A146, between Beccles and Bungay
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Wangford
Additional Comments: disappeared fonts? (one from the 13th-century church? Another from the deconsecrated church?)
Font Notes:
Noted in Suckling (1846-1848): "The font --now thrust into a corner-- is of stone, the eight sides of which are carved with five rosettes and three shields: the latter are charged with a bend engrailed; with the arms of Howard; and the engrailed saltire of Tiptoft." Suckling (ibdi.) further notes: "The church itself appears to have been built in the reign of Henry III" [1216-1272] , and records the first rector as John Olyver, in 1300. In Parker (1855) as octagonal, from the Perpendicular period. Listed in Cautley (1982) as a heraldic font of the 15th century. Knott (1999?), in his entry for this church, informs that this was "one of several churches sold off for private use in the 1970s" and that "the interior furnishings and memorials were transferred up the road to Barsham" [NB: Barsham has two of its own fonts, indexed here as Barsham Nos. 1 & 2 -- we have no information on where in Barsham this font has ended up]. [NB: the nearby Workhouse Chapel of St James was designed by G.E. Street in the 19th century -- it probably did not have a font in any case].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of the former church

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 398063 5812148

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

  • Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982, p. 67
  • Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
  • 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: 79