Great Redisham / Redisham / Redisham Magna / Redsham / Reddesham / Upredesham

No idividual entry for Great Redisham found in the Domesday survey. Illustrated in a 1810 (?) drawing by Davy (1827). Noted in Suckling (1846-1848): "The font is octangular, with carvings of rosettes and shields in alternate compartments, and stands at the west end". In Parker (1855) as a Perpendicular font. The font consists of an ocatgonal basin with deeply-carved panels containing four blank hanging shields inscribed in pointed quatrefoils, alternating with Tudor roses inscribed in the same; cherub heads at the abgle of the upper level of the underbowl chamfer; the lower level of the chamfer is a modern replacement; the octagonal pedestal base is decorated now with simple slender buttresses at the angles, but is clear that there were other elements decorating the panels between, and they were removed at some point in time; it must have been before 1810 (?), since Davy's drawing of that date does not show anything else on the base panels. On a plain octagonal plinth. The wooden cover is octagonal and plain, with a cross finial; modern. [NB: the church of St. James, Little Redisham is reported destroyed in Parker (1855)]