Frostenden No. 2 / Froxedena

Results: 1 records

INFORMATION

Font ID: 08782FRO
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 15th century, Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints, Frostenden
Font Location in Church: Inside
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17527299
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Frostenden, Beccles NR34 7HS, United kingdom
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A12, 13 km SSW of Lowestoft
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Blything [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared fonts? (the ones from the two churches reported in Domesday)
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Frostenden [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM4781/frostenden/] [accessed 17 June 2025]; it reports "2 churches. 0.23 church lands" in it. A stoup is described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a wall-mounted holy-water stoup ornamented with a cinquefoil motif.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 407507 5803917
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.3777, 1.6412
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 22′ 39.72″ N, 1° 38′ 28.32″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 237