Great Wenham / Wenham Magna

INFORMATION

FontID: 15619WEN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John
Church Patron Saints: St. John
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off the A12, SW of Ipswich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Font Location in Church: On the E side of the inner doorway of the porch
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Parker (1855) reports a holy-water stoup on the east side of the Early English inner doorway of the porch. Knott (2007?) notes that the baptismal font was replaced in the Victorian renovation of the church. [NB: we have no information on the earlier font]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: wall-mounted

REFERENCES

Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-10-28 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855