Somersham nr. Ipswich / Summersham

INFORMATION

Font ID: 15537SOM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17526328
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Church Lane, Somersham, Suffolk, IP8 4PW
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6 km W of Ipswich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Font Notes:
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, p. 30
  • Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]