Woolverstone
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Image Source: B&W photograph in Blake (1898)
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INFORMATION
FontID: 15610WOO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off the A1456, between Ipswich and Shotley
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the church, beneath the gallery
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes:
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Noted in Parker (1855) as an octagonal font in the Perpendicular style "with statutes around the pedestal". Tall octagonal wooden font cover of Gothic revival open-work; 19th-century? "With its beautiful new cover of carved wood, the old font stands in "its ancient usual place," a step or two in advance of the lofty tower arch. As is the case with the larger number of Suffolk fonts, this is octagonal in shape, having curiously cut panels in its sides, and supported by quaint figures around the pedestal." This same source notes and illustrates a holy-water stoup in the porch, without a date.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: yes
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Blake, John Laurens, The English home of Mr. Timothy Dalton, B.A., the teacher of the Church of Jesus Christ in Hampton, N.H., from 1639 to 1661, [s.l.]: [Privately printed], 1898
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855