Weybread

INFORMATION

Font ID: 15578WEY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century [stem only] [composite font], late Medieval / composite
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17539503
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 3 km SW of Harleston, 15 km E of Diss
Font Notes:
Parker (1855) notes: "The font has a good D[ecorated] shaft, but the bowl is truncated." A font in this church is noted and illustrated in Knott (2002, 2007), an octagonal basin of modern cut raised on a base of clustered columns, introduced by Richard Phipson's renovation of the 1860s. [NB: we have no information on the font described in Parker]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

  • Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
  • Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]