Bildeston

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B01: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - Trinity

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B02: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - symbol - eagle - with scroll

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B03: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - Five Wounds? Blessed Heart?

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B04: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion - with scroll

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B05: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - unidentified

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B06: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew - symbol - angel - with scroll

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B07: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - unidentified

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B08: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Luke - symbol - winged bull - with scroll

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B09: design element - architectural - buttress - 8

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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BU01: angel - cherub - 8

Scene Description: dafced [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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BU02: design element - motifs - floral - 8

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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LB01: animal - mammal - lion - sejant - 4

Scene Description: hardly anything left of them now, but part of the mains of two can be seen here to the left and right of the woodwoose

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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LBF01: human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose - with object

Scene Description: one of our; much damaged

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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LBF02: human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose - with object

Scene Description: one of four; much damaged

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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LBF03: human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose - with object

Scene Description: one of four; this one is the least damaged of the four

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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LBF04: human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose - with object

Scene Description: one of four; much damaged

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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UB01: animal - mammal - lion - sejant - 4

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/bildeston.htm] [accessed 5 November 2009]

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UB02: human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose - 4

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/bildeston.htm] [accessed 5 November 2009]

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the only symbol that remains of the four emblems on the shields held by the angels on the basin sides: the Trinity

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: archive photograph showing the state of the church on 8 May 1975, after the collapse of the tower

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott of a B&W archive photo taken 8 May 1975

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: in May 2008; noticed the 'capped' and repaired tower

Image Source: digital photograph taken May 2008 by Simon Knott

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken May 2008 by Simon Knott

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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view of font cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 October 2006 by Brokentaco [www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/231222111/in/photostream/]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15670BIL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary Magdalene

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off the B1115 [aka Hadleigh Rd], 8 km N of Hadleigh

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Edmundsbury & Ipswich

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font / Evangelists' font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, and to Janice Tostevin for their photographs of church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described in Parker (1855): "Font, an octagon, with panels in the bowl". Baptismal font of the East Anglia Evangelists type; the octagonal basin sides are deeply carved with the four symbols of the Evangelists alternating with angel demi-figures holding shields charged with emblems; of the latter, only one is clearly discernible now, the symbol of the Trinity, to the left of St. John's eagle [NB: there is no inscription visible inside the Trinity symbol lines in this case]; the one to the right of St. John's symbol appears to have the contour of a human heart in the lower end of the shield, and might be the remains of a set of the Five Wounds of Christ, the Blessed Heart, but this identification is by no means certain; the other two shields must have contained other related symbols -as many fonts of this type do- but they were chiselled off, probably during the Reformation; the four symbols of the Evangelists are still easily identified, all four holding scrolls; the angles of the basin are decorated with ornamented buttresses, much damaged now; the underbowl, all of which is part of the basin block, is decorated with the two levels of this type of font: on the upper level cherubs at the angles, their wings spreading over the sides; their heads have been defaced; on the lower level are a variety of floral motifs, some round, some square; there appears to be an added level on this underbowl, between the two mentioned above, with a sort of crenellation that may have originally gone all around but is now missing several parts. The base is a separate block of stone and, as is common in this type of font, it is octagonal-to-square in shape; raised on polygonal platforms on the sides are the remains of four woodwooses, one of which still shows his long hair and beard, and the round shield-like object in his hands; the other three are mucg defaced; at the angles between them are four polygonal platforms that supported the four seated lions typical of this type of base, but almost no part of them remains now. The wooden cover is round and flat, with very skilled cross-shaped iron-work decoration neding in fleurs de lis and acanthus-like tendrils; in the centre of the cross a ring handle; perhaps 17th-century? The font is raised on a square plinth with kneeling extension. Damage to this font is extensive, and it appears to have been caused not only by the irascible hands of Reformation hoodlams; the damage to the faces of the cherubs and abgels are typical of such iconoclasm, but other damage present on this font appears to be due to rough handling and probably exposure to the elements; ditto the missing lions of the base. Even the very nice font cover has been roughed up!

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 356757 5775089

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-century?

Material: wood, oak

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: 2009-11-05 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.

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