Playford

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 11470PLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [base only?] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: Similar to the one at nearby Culpho
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17545937
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located NE of Ipswich, just NE of Rushmere St. Andrew
Font Notes:
Noted in Gough (1792): "hexagon on a shaft hollowed into niches." Listed in Paley (1844) as a hexagonal baptismal font. Parker (1855), however, reports a modern basin -no shape given- on an Early English pedestal "with slender shafts at the angles, and panels between".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hexagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

REFERENCES

  • Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; p. 198
  • Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 22
  • Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]