Darmsden / Damsden

INFORMATION

Font ID: 14430DAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Andrew%27s_Church,_Darmsden_-_geograph.org.uk_-_18817.jpg
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near Needham Market
Additional Comments: destroyed stoup?
Font Notes:
Noted in Parker (1855): "Font a plain octagon, attached to the north wall." Dowsing (1885) reports on his visit to this church in 1643/1644 "a Holy Water Fon" on the wall of the chancel, but does not say whether they destroyed or defaced it or not.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

  • Dowsing, William, of Stratford, The Journal of William Dowsing, of Stratford, Parliamentary visitor, appointed under a warrant from the Earl of Manchester, for demolishing the superstitious pictures and ornaments of churches &c., within the County of Suffolk, in the years 1643-1644, Ipswich: Pawsey and Hayes, 1885, p. 31
  • Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [entry no.] 4 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=Gw8HAAAAQAAJ&pg=PT43&lpg=PT43&dq=martlesham+church+font&source=bl&ots=nM4adbDOF9&sig=XL83jdC0lyWLkR-6yy9MAC6BExo&hl=en&ei=uxPdSZ_wGoaaMuiAhdQN&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6#PPT8,M1] [accessed 8 April 2009]