Creeting St. Peter / West Creeting

Described in Parker (1855): "There is a rich P[erpendicular] font, panelled, and with shields and flowers; at the angles of the stem are lions." The 11 July 1871 Stonham Meeting of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology reports a Perpendicular "font in good condition" in this church. Knott (2008) writes: "Another curiosity is the font. It is almost identical to that at Earl Stonham, four miles away; but unlike that one, this is in immaculate condition. Mortlock felt that it hadn't been recut, and the carving is certainly in a 15th century style. There seems to be nothing missing, except that the shields have no symbols on them. They don't seem to have been attacked by iconoclasts. Perhaps the font was never finished, but perhaps it is more likely that it is a clever Victorian copy of Earl Stonham's. Above the font, the 19th century gallery".