Aldeburgh
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 December 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/aldeburgh.html] [accessed 27 October 2009]
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angel - demi-figure - holding shield - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 31 December 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/aldeburgh.html] [accessed 27 October 2009]
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animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 31 December 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/aldeburgh.html] [accessed 27 October 2009]
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angel - head - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 31 December 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/aldeburgh.html] [accessed 27 October 2009]
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design element - motifs - floral - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 31 December 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/aldeburgh.html] [accessed 27 October 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Geoff Pick, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 October 2005 by Geoff Pick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/119470] [accessed 18 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: showing the location of the missing motifs of the pedestal base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 31 December 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/aldeburgh.html] [accessed 27 October 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15594ALD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Address: Aldeburgh, Suffolk, IP15 5DY
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the coast, near Thorpeness
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Additional Comments: altered font / missing parts of the pedestal base / re-mounted on new plinth
Font Notes:
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Parker (1855) reports a "well sculptured, but mutilated" font in this church [NB: Parker's entry is headed 'Aldborough', probably by mistake with the Norfolk church of that name]. The font in its Victorian (?) re-setting is illustrated in Knott (2009). The font, typical of the East Anglia type of the Perpendicular period, consists of an octagonal basin decorated with demi-figures of angles holding shields alternating with seated lions; the shileds appear blank but mey have had their emblems hacked off; double row of angels' heads and floral motifs at the underbowl chamfer; of the original pedestal base all that remains is the octagonal shaft, the missing lions and the buttresses can only be guessed by the footprint on the lower base, which still retains the little pedestals on which the missing motifs stood; it is mounted on a modern lower base and plinth. The octagonal and flat wooden cover appears modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 404245 5779242
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.155364, 1.600298
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 9′ 19.31″ N, 1° 36′ 1.07″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
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]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]