Wingfield nr. Diss

Parker (1855) reports a font: "very good early P[erpendicular], octagonal, raised on two steps." Listed in Cautley (1982) as a heraldic font of the 15th century. Octagonal mounted baptismal font of stone (limestone?), probably dated to the 15th century. The basin sides are decorated with similar motifs to those found on the basin of the font at Saxmundham: the four symbols of the Evangelists alternating with angels (?) holding charged shields, all done in very deep relief. The angles of the underbowl are, like those at Saxmundham, ornamented with cherubs. The octagonal pedestal base, however, looks more like the one at Oulton: each alternate side is occupied by a sedente lion or a buttress; also like the font at Oulton, it has a square short lower base. It is raised on an octagonal pedestal. The font cover is octagonal and about 3 feet tall (?); it consists of a flat unadorned octagonal base and eight slender ribs projecting upwards form the angles of the octagon; the ribs are nicely crocketted all the way up to where they join into a single shaft, and the shaft continued with the same crocketted pattern all the way to the tip.