Barnham / Barhnahm nr. Bognor Regis
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06040BAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Gregory
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26282636
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Gregory the Great
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6-7 km S of Thetford, just E of the A134
Additional Comments: not yet in Knott (Nov 2009]
Font Notes:
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Noted in Parker (1855): "Font, E[arly] E[nglish]; an octagon, with plain bowl". Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one in a very large group of baptismal fonts that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 32