Blyford No. 1 / Blythford
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Image Source: engraving by Orlando Jewitt in Suckling (1848)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01849BLY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1220?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (early?), Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Halesworth IP19 9JY, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1986 875941
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B1123, 11-12 km W of Southwold, 25 km SW of Lowestoft
Font Notes:
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Illustrated in Suckling (1846-1848) with an engraving by Orlando Jewitt [NB: the name of the town is spelled 'Blythford' in Suckling]. Described and illustrated in Parker (1855), also with Jewitt's drawing. Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as an Early English font with an octagonal bowl on plain semi-detached shafts at the angles [cf. Index entry for Blyford No. 2 for a holy-water stoup of the Norman period in the same church]
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 401818 5799299
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.3352, 1.559
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 20′ 6.72″ N, 1° 33′ 32.4″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 218, 220
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged] and pl. 79
- Suckling, Alfred, The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk, with genealogical and architectural notices of its several towns and villages, London: John Weale [...], 1846-1848, vol. 2: 166