Great Thurlow / Thurlow Magna

INFORMATION

FontID: 10143THU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located N of Haverhill (dir. Newmarket)
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1100?
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century [basin only?], Medieval / composite
Font Notes:
Parker (1855) notes: "The upper part of the font is N[orman], with arches on the splayed sides". Listed in Cautley (1982) as a baptismal font of the 12th century. The Historic Churches Preservation Trust mentions that the "font dates from about 1100" [source: 'Recent Grants' issue of the Grants Cttee. Meeting of 22 June 2004, www.historicchurches.org.uk]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855