Little Finborough

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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: photograph taken ca. 1999 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/littlefin.htm] [accessed 29 October 2009]

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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

view of font and cover

Image Source: photograph taken ca. 1999 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/littlefin.htm] [accessed 29 October 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 15263FIN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints [aka St. Mary]

Church Patron Saints: All Saints &/or St. Mary

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located just S of Stowmarket

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Early English? / Decorated?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Parker (1855) as a plain octagonal font. Noted and illustrated in Knott (1999?). The octagonal basin is plain but for the mouldings on the underbowl; on an octagonal pedestal base with mouldings at top and bottom; appears to have been whitewashed. Stands on an octagonal plinth. The wooden cover is an octagonal pyramid with patterned sides at the base.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-10-29 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.

Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855