Little Wenham / Wenham Parva

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of church interior - painting

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view of church interior - painting

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view of church interior - painting

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view of font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15607WEN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints [aka St. Lawrence's]

Church Patron Saints: All Saints [the dedication to St. Lawrence is not official]

Church Location: Church Lane, Little Wenham, Ipswich, Suffolk, CO7 6PU

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located just NW of Capel St. Mary, 10 km S of Ipswich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 14th century [restored], Medieval [altered]

Church Notes: 13th-century wall paintings inside

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Parker (1855) reports a "modern and tasteless" font in this church. The present font is described in the English Heritage list entry for Little Wenham [http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1033410] [accessed 30 September 2011]: "Font, C14 much restored, simple octagonal stem with central drum and hexagonal angle columns, traces of red paint to original work". The large basin has plain vertical sides; there is a moulding at the underbowl; tha traces of paint are on the basin sides and on the outer colonnettes of the base; the broad central shaft is unpainted; the octagonal plinth is modern. [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of the font of the 13th-century church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.0119, 1.0309

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 0′ 42.84″ N, 1° 1′ 51.24″ E

UTM: 31U 364862 5764192

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

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