Earl Soham / Earls Soham

Gough (1792) notes that the font at Earls Soham [sic] is similar to the one at Heveningham, "except that the angels hold shields." Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 notes: "the font, of Caen stone, is richly sculptured", and dates the church and contents "chiefly in the later English style". Pareker (1855) mentions an octagonal font in this church. Listed in Cautley (1982) as a font of the 15th century bearing an inscription, and with a 17th-century cover. An article by Yeoman in the East Anglian Daily Times (18 April 1928) [reproduced in http://www.earl-soham.suffolk.gov.uk/history/romance2.htm [accessed 2 June 2009] notes the font and its inscription: "The octagonal font, on which, amongst other things, are angels holding shields and representations of lions, is also somewhat damaged, though fortunately not to any great extent. About its base is the pious injunction to "Pray for the soul of Robert Kinge, who caused this font to be made" although, in fact, the inscription is practically illegible. "