Offton / Ofton

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B01: angel

INFORMATION

FontID: 15536OFF
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 13 km NNW of Ipswich
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Described in Parker (1855): "Font, D[ecorated]; an octagon with angels in square panels round the bowl." Dowsing (1885) reports on his visit to this church in 1643/1644 "a Holy Water Font in the Chancel", but does not say whether they destroyed or defaced it or not.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Dowsing, William, of Stratford, The Journal of William Dowsing, of Stratford, Parliamentary visitor, appointed under a warrant from the Earl of Manchester, for demolishing the superstitious pictures and ornaments of churches &c., within the County of Suffolk, in the years 1643-1644, Ipswich: Pawsey and Hayes, 1885
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855