Barnardiston

Parker (1855) reports a good font in this church [no details given]. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Noted and illustrated in Knott (2007?): "The font, though only 15th century, is particularly battered. So much so, an ugly iron band has been placed around it to stop it falling to pieces. Perhaps this happened in the 20th century; it is hard to imagine that the Victorians would have resisted replacing it completely." The sides of the octagonal basin have large quatrefoil motifs; the underbowl chamfer is moulded and has floral motifs on the sides; raised on a polygonal pedestal base. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; Victorian?