Somersham nr. Ipswich / Summersham

INFORMATION

FontID: 15537SOM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church Lane, Somersham, Suffolk, IP8 4PW
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 6 km W of Ipswich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: , Medieval
Noted in Parker (1855): "Font, a plain octagon". Dowsing (1885) reports on his visit to this church in 1643/1644 "a Holy Water Font in the Church", 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