Sudbury No. 2

Badham (1852) writes: "In the present instance the Font which stands at the west end of the nave, is one of the old octagonal stone fonts which are usually found in Churches of the third period. The base mouldings are modern. The bason, which is provided with a plug and drain, is decorated on each of its sides with sunk quatrefoils. The cornice appears to have been knocked off in order to make room for a most extraordinary covering, resembling a cupboard, and painted blue, by which it was surmounted a few years since. The liberality of some individual, it is to be hoped, will supply the means for providing an oak cover, such as in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were often executed in tabernacle work of the most elaborate description resembling the canopies which surmount the stalls in the choirs of our Cathedral and Collegiate Churches. Such an one this font in all probability once possessed." Noted in Parker (1855) as a font of the Perpendicular period. Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with deeply carved sides decorated wirh floral motives inscribed in quatrefoils, blank shields in quatrefoils and at least one angel holding a blank shield; one of the upper sides of the rim is damaged; the underbowl chamfer appears plain, slightly curved; the sides of the stem have traceried windows; the lower base is moulded and has square flowers on the sides. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and cross finial; appears modern.