Blyford No. 1 / Blythford
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Image Source: engraving by Orlando Jewitt in Suckling (1848)
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01849BLY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Halesworth IP19 9JY, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1986 875941
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located on the B1123, 11-12 km W of Southwold, 25 km SW of Lowestoft
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1220?
Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Early English
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
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.3352, 1.559
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 20′ 6.72″ N, 1° 33′ 32.4″ E
UTM: 31U 401818 5799299
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
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855
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