Whepstead

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Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/whepstead.htm] [accessed 25 May 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

Font ID: 14727WHE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Petronilla
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Petronilla [earlier, St. Thomas of Canterbury]
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 7 km SSW of Bury St Edmund's
Font Notes:
Noted in Cautley (1982) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period; Cautley quotes Davy (?) for the font having been "removed and ormanented" in 1810 and "made away with altogether by a follower of the Oxford Movement" in the 1870s. The present font [see Whepstead entry in Knott's Suffolk Churches] is a 19th-century replacement.

REFERENCES

  • Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982, p. 63
  • Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.