Ixworth Thorpe / Thorpe-by-Ixworth
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 April 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/ixworththorpe.htm] [accessed 3 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15644IXW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Thetford Road, Ixworth Thorpe, Suffolk, IP31 1QH, UK
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A1088, 3 km NW of Ixworth, SSE of Thetford, 10 km NE of Bury St. Edmunds
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Blackburn [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There are six entries for [Ixworth] Thorpe in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL9172/ixworth-thorpe/] [accessed 8 October 2017], one of church reports a church and 0.03 church lands in it. Parker (1855) notes a plain octagonal font here; no date suggested. Illustrated in Knott (2008). The late-Medieval (?) baptismal font consists of a plain octagonal basin raised on a plain octagonal stem and a moulded octagonal lower base. The wooden cover is plain, octagonal and flat; probably modern. [NB: a church here is reported in to the Domesday survey period, but we have no information of the original font of this church]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Robert Wilkes for his drwaing of this church, and to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for the photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 350804 5798566
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.317121, 0.811098
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 19′ 1.64″ N, 0° 48′ 39.95″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
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]