Chattisham / Chatsham

INFORMATION

FontID: 10145CHA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints and St. Margaret [aka St. Mary and All Saints]
Church Patron Saints: All Saints & St. Margaret [St. Mary & All Saints]
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A1071, 3 km W of Ipswich
Font Location in Church: [one font said to be buried in the churchyard]
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Font Notes:
Pareker (1855) reports a plain octagonal font in this church. The Historic Churches Preservation Trust reports that "it is said that the original font is buried in the churchyard" [source: 'Recent Grants' issue of the Grants Cttee. Meeting of 22 June 2004, www.historicchurches.org.uk] [NB: the original fabric of the church is said to be 14th-century; there was a renovation of the church in the late 1860s, after Parker; did the font get buried then?]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal
Basin Interior Shape: rectangular
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855