Dennington / Dinnington

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 07256DEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14538540
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A1120, near Framlingham
Additional Comments: destroyed by Dowsing: 3 stoups here?
Font Notes:
Dowsing (1885) reports on his visit to this church in 1643/1644 and includes among his destructive endeavours "2 Holy Water Fionts" and "a Holy Water Font". Noted in Parker (1855): "Font, an octagon, with panelled bowl." A more recent source [www.holycross.edu/departments/vis...ojects/anglia/dennington/dennington.html] [accesed 22 October 2009] notes: "Baptismal font, early 15th century, shields, now stripped of their identifying painted armorials, on the bowl. The low pyramidal cover is 16th century" [text source and image of the font and cover: . The image shows and octagonal mounted baptismal font; the panels of the basin have blank shields in a quatrefoil window alternating with trefoil windows; the chamfer has a rose on each side; the octagonal pedestal base has a trefoil window on each panel.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 16th century
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: pyramidal shape, octagonal; arrises appear carved and sides painted

REFERENCES

  • Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982, p. 87
  • Dowsing, William, of Stratford, The Journal of William Dowsing, of Stratford, Parliamentary visitor, appointed under a warrant from the Earl of Manchester, for demolishing the superstitious pictures and ornaments of churches &c., within the County of Suffolk, in the years 1643-1644, Ipswich: Pawsey and Hayes, 1885, p. 32
  • Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]