Higham St. Mary

INFORMATION

FontID: 15611HEI
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 (W) the A12, S of Ipswich [there is another Heigham in Suffolk, to the W of Bury St. Edmuinds]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes:
Noted in Parker (1855) as an octagnal font with a panelled basin. Knott (2008?) notes: "Mortlock also indicated to me what appears, at first, to be a second font, but is in fact almost certainly an ancient holy water stoup, from the lost days of Catholic England. He wondered if it had come from the now-demolished south porch." [NB: Higham St. Stephen, located west of Bury St. Edmunds, is a 19th-century church with a contemporary font]

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