Darmsden / Damsden

INFORMATION

FontID: 14430DAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located near Needham Market
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
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
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855