Tunstall nr. Ipswich
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2008 by Keith Evans [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/936308] [accessed 14 May 2014]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: at the west rnd of the nave, opposite the south entranceway
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Keith Evans, 2008
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Keith Evans, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2008 by Keith Evans [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/936303] [accessed 14 May 2014]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2015
Image Source: photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/222/] [accessed 3 May 2015]
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 16 arches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2015
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design element - motifs - ball
Scene Description: several [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2015
Image Source: photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/222/] [accessed 3 May 2015]
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design element - motifs - tracery
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2015
Image Source: photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/222/] [accessed 3 May 2015]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12207TUN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only] -- 15th century [underbowl & base] [composite font], Medieval / composite
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, by the organ
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael & All Angels
Church Address: 5 Orford Road, Tunstall, Suffolk, IP12 2JN, UK
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located at the B1069-B1078 crossroads, about 25 km NE of Ipswich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Bosmere
Additional Comments: composite font [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for this Tunstall [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TM0849/tunstall/] [accessed 14 May 2014], but there is no mention of church or cleric in either of them]. The font here is described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2015) as a baptismal font consisting of a Romanesque octagonal basin, raised on a capital -serving as underbowl- and a pedestal base that are both 15th-century. The basin is painted on the outside, the paint highlighting the blind arcade of round-headed arches, two per side; the underbowl piece is decorated with ball motif, and the stem and lower base, both octagonal, with tracery (trefoil, tetrafoil, etc.) A wooden (oak?) cover of late manufacture, flat octagonal base with eight low ribs supporting a ball finial.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 394116 5778208
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.144224, 1.452614
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 8′ 39.2″ N, 1° 27′ 9.41″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck or Sussex marble)
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (inside rim): 67 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 89 - 95 cm* [across flats - corner to corner]
Basin Total Height: 33 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2015)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk Churches and their Treasures, London: Batsford, 1938, p. 328
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Mortlock, Derek P., The Popular Guide to Suffolk Churches, 1988-, vol. 3
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Suffolk, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1975, p. 470