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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © James Fielding, 2005
Image Source: Image source: http://digitatlas.blogspot.com
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 05192SAP
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off the A1088, 1.5 km E of Honington
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Baptismal font of the 13th century (CIVICTRUST WEB page of the Churches Conservation Trust). James Fielding [http://digitatlas.blogspot.com] illustrates the font and notes a "13th Century octagonal polypod font with Jacobean cover. The basin is octagonal with plain tapering sides, raised on a central octagonal shaft and four detached slender rounded colonnettes with moulded capitals and bases, on a plain square lower base or plinth. The cover is of the Jacobean type, flat octagonal platform with raised scroll ribs around a central pivot, and, according to Cautley (1982) dates from the 17th century. Both font and cover are illustrated in Knott (2008).
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century?
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982
Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-06-02 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.