Finningham

INFORMATION

Font ID: 12616FIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century / 19th century, Perpendicular? / Victorian?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Bartholomew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17526400
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Bartholomew
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6 km NW of Thwaite
Font Notes:
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, p. 87
  • Howard, F.E., English Church Woodwork: a Study in Craftmanship during the Mediaeval period A.D. 1250-1550, London: B.T. Batsford, 1919, p. 322, 327
  • 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, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=50963] [accessed 5 February 2007]
  • Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]