Stonham Aspal / Estenam / Estuna / Stonham Aspall

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 11102STO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Early English? / Decorated?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Lambert, Stonham Aspal
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17526149
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin & St. Lambert [aka Lambertus, Landebertus]
Church Address: 5 The St, Stonham Aspal, Stowmarket IP14 6AG, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1449 711365
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A1120, E. of Stownmarket, 20 km N of Ipswich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Bosmere [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
There are four entries for Stonham [Aspal] [variant spellings]in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM1359/stonham-aspal/] [accessed 20 June 2025], one of which reports "1 church. 0.11 church lands" in it. Noted in Parker (1855): "The font is D[ecorated], with poor panelling in the pedestal and bowl." Noted in James Fielding [http://digitatlas.blogspot.com]: "The font is old with panelled bowl & stem." Noted in the Historic Churches Preservation Trust, Recent Grants [...] 16 March 2006 [www.historicchurches.org.uk] as a 13th-century font in this church.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

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