Playford

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LB01: design element - architectural - niche

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 11470PLA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located NE of Ipswich, just NE of Rushmere St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century [base only?] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: Similar to the one at nearby Culpho
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; r["References"]
Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855