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Apostle or saint - Evangelists?

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angel - cherub - 8

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angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - unidentified - 4

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animal - mammal - lion - sejant - 4

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design element - architectural - buttress? - 4?

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 8

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St.Mary the Virgin Church, Gislingham. Taken from Mellis Road"

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Gislingham St Mary’s church. From the outside, the outstanding feature of this church is its red brick tower. It was built in 1639 after the original fell forty years earlier. There are two scratch dials to look out for. The entrance is through the late 15th c. north porch built by Robert Chapman. Above the nave is a lovely example of a double hammerbeam roof. It has an arch-braced battlemented collar."

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: the font and cover are visible at the far end

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view of font and cover in context - west side

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14769GIS

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: St Marys Cl, Gislingham, Eye IP23 8HW, UK -- Tel.: +44 1379 783 226

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located E of the B1113, W of the A140, 6 km W of Eye, 12-14 km NNW of Stowmarket

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Edmundsbury & Ipswich

Historical Region: Hundred of Hartismere -- formerly Notfolk

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular

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There are twelve entries for Gislingham [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM0771/gislingham/] [accessed 1 January 2020] none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Parker (1855) writes: "Font, an octagon, with panels on the bowl, and animals round a penelled pedestal". The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TM0763471794] notes: "Parish church. C14 chancel, late C15 nave and north porch. Tower collapsed 1598, rebuilt 1638-40 by E. Petto, bricklayer. Refurnished 1802 and late C19.To centre of nave is late C15 octagonal font given by R. Chapman, double stepped base with inscription, stem has 4 seated lions and crocketed pinnacles, fleurons and angels up to bowl with 4 Evangelist symbols and 4 angels bearing shields of arms." Listed in Cautley (1982) as 15th-century font bearing an inscription. Noted and illustrated in Knott (2008): "The font has suffered the knocks and indignities of the centuries, but bears a dedicatory inscription to the Chapman family, who also gave the porch outside." The font consists of an octagonal basin with figures [apostles? / evangelists? / saints?] on the sides, the underbowl chamfer of two levels: cherubs on the top, rosettes on the bottom; square base with lions (?) at the angles and buttresses (?) on the sides; the inscription carved on the lower base; two-step plinth. All very worn and damaged, as indicated above. The wooden cover is an octagonal pyramid with crocketed arrises; 17th-century? but the finial is a modern replacement.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.30526, 1.0447

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 18′ 18.94″ N, 1° 2′ 40.92″ E

UTM: 31U 366689 5796791

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

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Inscription Location: on the two-stepped plinth [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Text: Robert Chapman [cf. FontNotes]

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LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-century?

Material: wood,

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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: 2009-06-02 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.

Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855