Holton in Halesworth

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 11681HOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter, Holton
Font Location in Church: Reported inside the church ca. 1824
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17546972
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Halesworth IP19 8NB, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1986 875941
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Holton is now an industrial suburb of Halesworth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Font Notes:
Reported in Suckling (1846-1848): "an excellent font of stone having the eight panels of its sides filled with shields and rosettes". Parker (1855) quotes Rickman in his description of this font: "a good font, of either D[ecorated] or early P[erpendicular] character", and then gives his own: "Font, very good D[ecorated]; an octagon, with clustered shafts around the pedestal, and panelling in the bowl." [NB: a Norman dragon carved on the inner doorway indicates this church goes back to that period, but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

  • Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]
  • Suckling, Alfred, The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk, with genealogical and architectural notices of its several towns and villages, London: John Weale [...], 1846-1848, vol. 2: 403