Rickinghall Inferior / Inferior Rickinghall

INFORMATION

FontID: 01871RIC
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Rickinghall, Bury Rd, Rickinghall, Diss IP22 1EJ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1379 898685
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 11 km SW of Diss
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Parker (1855) quotes Rickman for the early Decorated date and describes the font as octagonal. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. Knott (2008) writes: "Another intriguing detail is the font. As is familiar from the first part of the 14th century, it has arcading carved with window tracery, including an exact copy of the chancel east window. However, it was never finished. The natural conclusion is that the work was interupted by the Black Death, but it does suggest that during this period the fonts were bought uncarved by parishes, and then the designs were added in situ."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.3363, 0.991087
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 20′ 10.68″ N, 0° 59′ 27.91″ E
UTM: 31U 363130 5800343

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