Levington / Leuentone / Leuentuna
Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2011
Standing permission
Results: 18 records
B01: design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose - in a cusped panel
Scene Description: on the northeast side of the basin (here on the left panel)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 February 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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B02: coat of arms - Garnon family? - in a cusped panel
Scene Description: or Cavendish family? -- on the north side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 February 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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B03: design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose - in a cusped panel
Scene Description: on the northwest side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 February 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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B04: symbol - shield - hanging shield - emblem - St. Edmund? - in a cusped panel
Scene Description: or St. Etheldreda? -- on the west side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 February 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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B05: design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose - in a cusped panel
Scene Description: on the southwest side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 February 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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B06: coat of arms - Brandon family - in a cusped panel
Scene Description: on the south side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 February 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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B07: design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose - in a cusped panel
Scene Description: on the southeast side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 February 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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B08: coat of arms - Edward I the Confessor, King of England - in a cusped panel
Scene Description: on the east side of the basin
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 February 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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angel - cherub - 8
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1110426012_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 February 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 February 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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design element - motifs - moulding
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1110426013_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 February 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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view of basin - north side - detail
Scene Description: an old staple used to bind the cracked stone; notice that the crack goes all the way through the re-carved cherub wings on the underbowl side
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 February 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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view of basin - north side - detail
Scene Description: Visible damage on basin is from where the hinge of the old cover was located.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 February 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/images/suffolk0604157371.jpg] [accessed 1 June 2009]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the edge of the font basin can be seen on the right side of the image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/images/suffolk0604157371.jpg] [accessed 1 June 2009]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font and cover at the back (west), left (south) side of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/images/suffolk0604157371.jpg] [accessed 1 June 2009]
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view of font and cover - north side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 February 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/images/suffolk0604157371.jpg] [accessed 1 June 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 14764LEV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Church Ln, Levington, Ipswich IP10 0LQ, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A12-A14 crossroads, 1-2 km ESE of Nacton, 6 km SE of Ipswich town centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Colnes
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, S side
Century and Period: 15th century [partially re-carved], Late Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Suffolk Churches, and to Janice Tostevin for their photographs of this church and font
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for Levington [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM2339/levington/] [accessed 2 January 2020], one of which reports "1 church. 0.06 church lands" in it. Parker (1855) notes a font with a penelled basin in this church. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TM2343939022] notes: "Church, mediaeval. [...] C15 octagonal limestone font with sunk facets carved with alternating shields and roses, and supporting angel beneath; oak pyramid cover, of C18 or early C19." Listed in Cautley (1982) in a group of 15th-century heraldic fonts in Suffolk. Illustrated in Knott (2008); octagonal basin decorated with charged shields and floral motifs in deeply-carved cusped panels, mouldings at upper rim and lower side; cherubs at the underbowl with moulfings below; raised on a plain stem and moulded lower base, both octagonal; the small upper plinth is square, the lower one larger and octagonal. The wooden cover if of the dome type, with a band of florettes at the lower sides, the dome proper plain but for the arrisses and the floral finial; 19th-century Victorian?
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.00484, 1.2541
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 0′ 17.42″ N, 1° 15′ 14.76″ E
UTM: 31U 380160 5763016
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 18th - 19th-century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982
Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-06-01 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855