Sproughton
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15617SPR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17534246
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located between the B1113 and the A14, W of Ipswich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Additional Comments: no font mentioned in Knott
Font Notes:
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Parker (1855) reports a plain octagonal font in this church [NB: the church is chiefly 14th- and 15th-century]. [NB: a view of the interior of this church in Knott (2007) shows a font with decoarted panels at the west end of the nave; this may be a modern replacemnet font]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
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]