Great Thurlow / Thurlow Magna
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10143THU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1100?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century [basin only?], Medieval / composite
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17540666
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located N of Haverhill (dir. Newmarket)
Additional Comments: composite font? / missing base? [exterior only in Knott -- Nov. 2009]
Font Notes:
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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, p. 65
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]