Shipmeadow / Schippe-meadowe / Scipmedu / Scitmetdua / Shepemeadow

Noted in Suckling (1846-1848): "The font --now thrust into a corner-- is of stone, the eight sides of which are carved with five rosettes and three shields: the latter are charged with a bend engrailed; with the arms of Howard; and the engrailed saltire of Tiptoft." Suckling (ibdi.) further notes: "The church itself appears to have been built in the reign of Henry III" [1216-1272] , and records the first rector as John Olyver, in 1300. In Parker (1855) as octagonal, from the Perpendicular period. Listed in Cautley (1982) as a heraldic font of the 15th century. Knott (1999?), in his entry for this church, informs that this was "one of several churches sold off for private use in the 1970s" and that "the interior furnishings and memorials were transferred up the road to Barsham" [NB: Barsham has two of its own fonts, indexed here as Barsham Nos. 1 & 2 -- we have no information on where in Barsham this font has ended up]. [NB: the nearby Workhouse Chapel of St James was designed by G.E. Street in the 19th century -- it probably did not have a font in any case].