Aldeburgh

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angel - demi-figure - holding shield - 4

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

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

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

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 - moulding

Scene Description: showing the location of the missing motifs of the pedestal base

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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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 October 2005 by Geoff Pick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/119470] [accessed 18 September 2013]

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view of font and cover in context

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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INFORMATION

FontID: 15594ALD

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul

Church Location: Aldeburgh, Suffolk, IP15 5DY

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located on the coast, near Thorpeness

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.155364, 1.600298

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 9′ 19.31″ N, 1° 36′ 1.07″ E

UTM: 31U 404245 5779242

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]. Accessed: 2009-10-27 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.

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