Rickinghall Inferior / Inferior Rickinghall

INFORMATION

Font ID: 01871RIC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Rickinghall, Bury Rd, Rickinghall, Diss IP22 1EJ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1379 898685
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 11 km SW of Diss
Additional Comments: unfinished font?
Font Notes:
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

UTM: 31U 363130 5800343
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.3363, 0.991087
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 20′ 10.68″ N, 0° 59′ 27.91″ 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. 220
  • Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]