Ipswich No. 14
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15585IPS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century / 19th century, Perpendicular? / Victorian?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Stephen [redundant]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave [cf. FontNotes]
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17535098
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Stephen
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located in the city centre, where it now serves as the Tourist Information Centre
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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Noted in Parker (1855) as a plain octagon. The present font is of overall octagonal design, but it is not plain, having quatrefoiled panels all around the basin and a moulded underbowl, raised on a moulded pedestal base [NB: this must be a Victorian replacement of the font noted in Parker]. The font cover is a modern version of the Jacobean four scroll-rib design.
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]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]