Lidgate / Lisgata

INFORMATION

Font ID: 11974LID
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (early?), Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary, Lidgate
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17545781
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: The Street, Lidgate, Newmarket CB8 9PT , United Kingdom
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B1063, about 10 km SE of Newmarket
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Risbridge [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
Cautley (1982) notes the simple 17th-century font cover. Noted in the Historic Churches Preservation Trust, Recent Grants [...] 16 March 2006 [www.historicchurches.org.uk]: "Early 15th century font". Both font and cover are illustrated in Knott (2008); the font is octagonal and totally plain, as if had been scraped; the cover is an octagonal pyramid, plain, with a knob finial.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982, p. 87
  • Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.