Great Ashfield / Ashfield Magna
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14728ASH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17526234
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A1088, N of Woolpit and Elmswell and the A14, 18 km from Bury St. Edmund's
Additional Comments: moved font -- not available in Simon yet (Nov 2009)
Font Notes:
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Noted in Parker (1855) as a plain octagonal font of the Perpendicular period. Noted in Cautley (1982) as a font that "was moved from the original and interesting position it occupied against the north pier arcade." Cautley (ibid.) also notes the wooden canopy. Illustrated in Knott (2008), who writes: "ornate font, looking like a 14th century wedding cake". The basin has a crenellated upper side, with cinquefoil crocketed arch heads on the sides; human heads at the underbowl angles and graded moulding on the chamfer; shield with emblems on the sides of the octagonal pedestal, and buttresses at the angles; moulded lower base; raised on an octagonal plinth. Whitewashed. The font is now [2008] located at the west end of the nave.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982, p. 63, 64, 65
- Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]