Chelmondiston
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Standing permission
Results: 1 records
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/chelmondiston.html] [accessed 27 October 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15608CHE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: Late Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Notes: Church much damaged by a bomb in WWII; re-built in the 1950s
Church Address: Church road, Chelmondiston, Suffolk, IP9 1HZ
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near Ipswich, to the E
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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Parker (1855) reports a modern font in this late-medieval church. Knott (2008) notes that the font is in the 14th-century style, but the work of E.B. Hakewill, responsible for the renovation of this church in the 1860s. [NB: we have no information on the late-medieval font]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of the modern font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 377103 5761478
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.990356, 1.210129
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 59′ 25.28″ N, 1° 12′ 36.46″ E
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat octagonal platform, vertical ribs converging at finial; modern
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]