Finningham

INFORMATION

FontID: 12616FIN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Bartholomew
Church Patron Saints: St. Bartholomew
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 6 km NW of Thwaite
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century / 19th century, Perpendicular? / Victorian?
Reported in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 as an elaborately sculptured font. Parker (1855) writes: "Font, P[erpendicular], an octagon, with panelled bowl; it has a tall cover, the upper part of which is very good." Cautley (1982) notes the pre-Reformation font cover. The font-cover is described in Howard & Crossley (1919).

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 16th-century?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: yes
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982
Howard, F.E., English Church Woodwork: a Study in Craftmanship during the Mediaeval period A.D. 1250-1550, London: B.T. Batsford, 1919
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855