Brightwell / Brightwell nr. Ipswich

INFORMATION

FontID: 15540BRI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 8 km E of Ipswich
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 19th century, Victorian
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
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855