Ipswich No. 10

Standing permission

Results: 16 records

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B01: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant

Scene Description: one of four [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 24 April 2009 by Janice Tostevin

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B02: angel - holding shield - emblem - unidentified

Scene Description: one of four; all the emblems appear to have a cross in them, but they do not appear to be the Instruments of the Passion

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 April 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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B03: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant

Scene Description: the second of four

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 April 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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B04: angel - holding shield - emblem - unidentified

Scene Description: the second of four

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 April 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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B05: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant

Scene Description: the third of four similar lions on the basin sides

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 April 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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B06: angel - holding shield - emblem - unidentified

Scene Description: the third of four similar angels on the basin sides

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 April 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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B07: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant

Scene Description: the fourth of four similar lions on the basin sides

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 April 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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B08: angel - holding shield - emblem - unidentified

Scene Description: the fourth of four similar angels on the basin sides; the cross of the emblem here is broad and well marked

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 April 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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BU01: angel - head - 8

Scene Description: with the usual arrangement of wings spread over the sides of the upper level of the chamfer

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 April 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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BU02: design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 8

Scene Description: on the lower level of the chamfer

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 April 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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UB01: animal - mammal - lion - sejant - 4

Scene Description: at 90-degree angles on the stem of the base, alternating with buttresses

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 24 April 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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UB02: design element - architectural - buttress - 4

Scene Description: at 90-degree angles on the stem of the base, alternating with sitting lions

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 24 April 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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view of base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 April 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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view of basin

Scene Description: notice the damage related to the cover staples on the right panel, near the rim

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 24 April 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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view of basin - underbowl

Scene Description: showing the two different levels and decoration

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 April 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 April 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12698IPS

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Augustine

Church Patron Saints: St. Augustine of Hippo

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located on Felixtowe Road

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font / heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janice Tostevin for her photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk,linsteadparva.htm] [accessed 16 February 2007] has collected some useful notes in his entry for this church. Knott writes: "The font is interesting, because it clearly did not come from this church at all. Like many older octagonal fonts in Suffolk, it has one blank side, suggesting that it once stood against a pillar in the north arcade, as once many did. But, of course, that cannot be, because this church doesn't have any pillars at all. The church of St Augustine, Ipswich, is supposed to contain the font formerly in St Peter, Linstead Magna. But Mortlock suggests that St Peter's old font may actually be this one, here at St Margaret. Perhaps St Augustine contains the old font from St Margaret. Cautley, however, writing just 10 years after the demolition of St Peter [i.e., Linstead Magna], insists its font went to Ipswich. He was diocesan architect at the time, so shouldn't he know?". The label the Parish has now [April 2009] at the foot of the font reads: "This font formerly in the Church of Linstead Magna (now demolished) was presented to this Church by the Linstead Parochial Church Council".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat, octagonal and plain

REFERENCES

Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2007-02-16 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.