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INFORMATION

Font ID: 14755BED
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17525524
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6 km NE of Debenham
Additional Comments: do images from Simon
Font Notes:
Parker (1855) notes: "The font appears transition D[ecorated]; it is an octagon, with curious and delicate tracery in its panels." Noted and illustrated in Cautley (1982) as a baptismal font decorated with tracery; the cover is dated to the 17th century. Knott (2007) reckons the font cover is late 17th-century. The font consists of an octagonal basin with tracery on the sides, and a graded underbowl chamfer; raised on an octagonal pedestal base with one moulding at the top, the lower base splaying and moulded; on an octagonal plinth. The wooden cover is of the rim-buffet type with opening side doors for acces, the upper volume, however, much like the standard Jacobean design of the vertical scroll ribs around a centre pivot.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982, p. 66, 67, 87 and pl. 81
  • 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]