Henstead
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12942HEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17527351
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B1127, 3 km N of Wrentham, 10 km SW of Lowestoft
Additional Comments: disappeared font? / destroyed font?
Font Notes:
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Billett (2006) notes: "A tall wooden cover, ornamented with a spire with the dove of the holy spirit on the top, sits on the modern font." The modern font consists of an octagonal basin the sides of which are decorated with deeply-set quatrefoils between protruding mouldings; graded chamfer; panelled octagonal stem; splaying lower base. Billett (ibid.) notes that the original Norman church suffered a fire in 1641 and that two major renovations took place at later dates, one in Victorian times, the other in 1906. [NB: the English Heritage web site [www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=282054] [accessed 19 September 2011] notes that the church fabric is "Medieval, with C17-C18 alterations; considerably restored 1906."; we have no information on its original font].
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-18th century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Billett, Michael, English thatched churches, London: Robert Hale, 2006, p. 195 and ill. on p. 196