Kirton nr. Felixtowe / Kirketune

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design element - architectural - column - 4

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/kirton.htm] [accessed 21 October 2001]

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design element - architectural - column - columns with capitals and bases - 5

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/kirton.htm] [accessed 21 October 2001]

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design element - motifs - foliage

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/kirton.htm] [accessed 21 October 2001]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirton St Mary and St Martin’s church. As you approach the church, you will notice how brown the tower appears. This is because septarium was largely used in its construction. It seems to blend in nicely with the colour of the roofs and is unusual in Suffolk. The church was mentioned in Domesday but no sign of the Saxon building remains today. Today’s church is mainly 15th century with the tower being added half a century later. Internally the roof of the nave has the appearance of an inverted hull of a ship. The 14th century piscina is flanked by a dropped sill sedilia. The font is a strange one; it is of 13th century square design with a supporting column at each corner, but lacks the usual decorations apart from flowers around the base of the bowl."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 April 2007 by Adrian S Pye [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2102332] [accessed 18 May 2020]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/kirton.htm] [accessed 21 October 2001]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15550KIR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Martin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Martin

Church Location: Church Ln. Kirton, Ipswich IP10 0PT, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off the A14, 5 km from Felixtowe, 11 km S of Woodbridge, 10 km SE of Ipswich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St.Edmundsbury & Ipswich

Historical Region: Hundred of Colnes

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end of the N asile [not its original position]

Century and Period: 13th century [altered], Late Norman? / Transitional? [altered]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for this Kirton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM2839/kirton/] [accessed 18 May 2020], one of which reports "1 church. 0.05 church lands" in it. Parker (1855) writes: "Font, a plain square." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TM2812239714] notes: "Parish church, nave and chancel C16, tower rebuilt in C16. Considerably altered in mid C19 when north aisle was added. [...] Inside is a C13 font with square bowl on round shaft and 4 detached columns". Noted and illustrated in Knott ([2006?]), who notes the relocation of the font to the east end of the nosrt aisle. The font consists of a quadrangular basin decorated with slender colonnettes at the corners, and foliage on the underbowl; at the angles of the latter, the foliage becomes the foliated capitals of the central shaft and four angles colonnettes of the base, which also have mouldings at both ends; raised on a small square plinth. The columns of the base and the lower base or plinth appear too sharp to be original, unless they have been drastically re-tooled. The wooden cover is later (modern?), of octagonal pyramid shape, the sides decorated with floral and star motifs.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.00933, 1.322

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 00′ 34″ N, 1° 19′ 19″ E

UTM: 31U 384832 5763405

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-10-21 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.

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