Brightwell / Brightwell nr. Ipswich

INFORMATION

Font ID: 15540BRI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 19th century, Victorian
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17545916
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 8 km E of Ipswich
Font Notes:
Parker (1855) reports a modern font in this Decorated church [NB: we have no information on the earlier font]. Dowsing's Journal (1885) records the breaking of a "holy water font" [i.e., a stoup] in his 1643-1644 visit to this church.

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. 29
  • Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]