Chelmondiston
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
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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
FontID: 15608CHE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Church road, Chelmondiston, Suffolk, IP9 1HZ
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located near Ipswich, to the E
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Century and Period: Late Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of the modern font
Church Notes: Church much damaged by a bomb in WWII; re-built in the 1950s
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]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.990356, 1.210129
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 59′ 25.28″ N, 1° 12′ 36.46″ E
UTM: 31U 377103 5761478
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]. Accessed: 2009-10-27 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855