Witnesham

INFORMATION

FontID: 01892WIT

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Witnesham Church Ln, Ipswich IP6 9JD, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1473 251630

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 6-7 km NE of Ipswich

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Parker (1855): "Font, good P[erpendicular]; an octagon, with panelled bowl." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.113426, 1.182448

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 6′ 48.34″ N, 1° 10′ 56.81″ E

UTM: 31U 375545 5775212

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