Battisford / Battisford Tye

INFORMATION

Font ID: 14431BAT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century (late?), Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17526091
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B1115, SW of Stowmarket
Font Notes:
Noted in Parker (1855): Font, late D[ecorated]; it has a moulded pedestal, and tracery in the bowl." Noted in Cautley (1982).

REFERENCES

  • Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982, p. 66
  • Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [entry no.] 5 / [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]