Ipswich No. 12

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the modern font in the context of the nave; the church is now [2008] a community centre

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/stlawrenceipswich.htm] [accessed 26 October 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 15583IPS

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Lawrence [redundant]

Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located near the corner of Butter Market and Church Lane

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the W doorway

Century and Period: 19th century, Victorian

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of the modern font

Font Notes: Click to view

Parker (1855) notes: "The font has a good, but mutilated, crocketed cover." That must be the font that was moved to Ipswich St. Nicholas' in the 1860s, according to Knott (2008). The recent [7 August 2008] illustration of the church interior of St. Lawrence in Knott (2008) shows an octagonal font of late date [Victorian?] and no cover on it. [cf. Index entry for Ipswich No. 5, St. Nicholas', for the font originally from St. Lawrence]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-10-26 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.

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