Bungay No. 1

INFORMATION

FontID: 11725BUN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity
Church Location: Bungay, Suffolk, NR35 1AU
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 9 km W of Beccles
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Wangford
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 11th century, Medieval
Knott (2008) informs that the Holy Trinity church of Bungay has now "one of Suffolk's few 18th century fonts, not too dissimilar from the one across the road at St. Mary. There 's another at far off Bawdsey." [none of these fonts listed in this Index on account of their late date]. The 18th-century font is probably not original from this church, because, about 150 years earlier Suckling (1846-1848) had written: "This church possesses no font, its use being supplied by a wooden moveable stool; though there is little cause, perhaps, to lament its disappearance, disreputable as is its successor. It could not have been very elegant, for we learn, from the authority above quoted [the 'Churchreeve's Books'], that in 1558 the Churchwardens 'paid the mason and his lad for 3 days work making the font, wages and meat, 3s. 9d.'" Suckling (ibid.) furher notes: "The circular tower of this church is, probably, as ancient as the reign of Edward the Confessor" [i.e., 1042-1066], and that the first recorded vicar of Holy Trinity is Robert Haustede, in 1308.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 394508 5812179

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

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