Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Dedication
- Editors’ Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Norman Scarfe: An Appreciation
- Domesday Herrings
- Searching for Salvation in Anglo-Norman East Anglia
- ‘On the Threshold of Eternity’: Care for the Sick in East Anglian Monasteries
- The Parson’s Glebe: Stable, Expanding or Shrinking?
- Suffolk Churches in the Later Middle Ages: The Evidence of Wills
- Sir John Fastolf and the Land Market: An Enquiry of the Early 1430s regarding Purchasable Property
- Sir Philip Bothe of Shrubland: The Last of a Distinguished Line Builds in Commemoration
- A First Stirring of Suffolk Archaeology?
- Concept and Compromise: Sir Nicholas Bacon and the Building of Stiffkey Hall
- Shrubland before Barry: A House and its Landscape 1660–1880
- Garden Canals in Suffolk
- Estate Stewards in Woodland High Suffolk 1690–1880
- A Journal of a Tour through Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire in the Summer of 1741
- Thomas Gainsborough as an Ipswich Musician, a Collector of Prints and a Caricaturist
- Ipswich Museum Moralities in the 1840s and 1850s
- John Cordy Jeaffreson (1831–1901) and the Ipswich Borough Records
- The Caen Controversy
- Select Bibliography of the Writings of Norman Scarfe
Sir Philip Bothe of Shrubland: The Last of a Distinguished Line Builds in Commemoration
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Dedication
- Editors’ Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Norman Scarfe: An Appreciation
- Domesday Herrings
- Searching for Salvation in Anglo-Norman East Anglia
- ‘On the Threshold of Eternity’: Care for the Sick in East Anglian Monasteries
- The Parson’s Glebe: Stable, Expanding or Shrinking?
- Suffolk Churches in the Later Middle Ages: The Evidence of Wills
- Sir John Fastolf and the Land Market: An Enquiry of the Early 1430s regarding Purchasable Property
- Sir Philip Bothe of Shrubland: The Last of a Distinguished Line Builds in Commemoration
- A First Stirring of Suffolk Archaeology?
- Concept and Compromise: Sir Nicholas Bacon and the Building of Stiffkey Hall
- Shrubland before Barry: A House and its Landscape 1660–1880
- Garden Canals in Suffolk
- Estate Stewards in Woodland High Suffolk 1690–1880
- A Journal of a Tour through Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire in the Summer of 1741
- Thomas Gainsborough as an Ipswich Musician, a Collector of Prints and a Caricaturist
- Ipswich Museum Moralities in the 1840s and 1850s
- John Cordy Jeaffreson (1831–1901) and the Ipswich Borough Records
- The Caen Controversy
- Select Bibliography of the Writings of Norman Scarfe
Summary
BETWEEN 1525 and 1535, a group of craftsmen in terracotta, perhaps from the continent, travelled through Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk working mainly for Marney, Bothe and Bedingfield patrons, themselves connected by marriage. Their work for Sir Philip Bothe at Shrubland Old Hall and churches nearby repays particularly detailed study. Realising that he would be the last male in a line of distinguished clerics and scholars, Sir Philip planned and built to sustain their souls in heaven and commemorate their names on earth for ever.
The Terracotta Trail
John Blatchly
Norman Scarfe has always been intrigued by the Renaissance work of high quality of the 1520s and 1530s at Layer Marney, Shrubland and Oxborough, all in the latest Italian fashion of the time, and discernibly by the same craftsmen. After the Suffolk Institute excursion he led to Shrubland inMay 1982, he suggested ‘a brief article … including illustrations of the whole local group of terracotta windows … and the Higham drawing’. What appeared was certainly brief, with only one drawing, and something fuller is now overdue.1 We therefore invite him to take with us a longer journey from north Essex to west Norfolk following a hypothetical sequence of execution of this most decorative work, noting the links between families using and recommending the terracotta artists, and the inspiration behind some oft-repeated details. That Bedingfields of the same generation were involved in inviting the craftsmen into their own counties in succession was merely noted en passant by Evelyn Wood; and decorated windows in three Suffolk churches nearby have often and wrongly been alleged to have been rescued and resited from the Old Hall at Shrubland after its partial demolition in the nineteenth century. New work at Barham, Henley and Barking churches was in fact ordered by Sir Philip Bothe of Shrubland, probably after the craftsmen had finished making windows for the chapel at his mansion there in about 1525. It should be stated at the outset that contemporary work in terracotta in Suffolk at Westhorpe Hall, Wolsey's College in Ipswich, and in Norfolk at East Barsham Hall and Great Snoring Rectory is in quite different styles, probably the work of other schools of craftsmen.
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- East Anglia's HistoryStudies in Honour of Norman Scarfe, pp. 123 - 148Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2002