Wherstead / Querstede / Wervesteda

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view of font in context

the modern font
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2008 by Simon Knott
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of basin

the modern font
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken in 2008 by Simon Knott
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

Font ID: 15620WHE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17534060
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5 km S of Ipswich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Additional Comments: disappeared font? / replacement font
Font Notes:
Described in Parker (1855) "Font, N[orman], having a square basin and a stem". This Norman font must have been replaced soon after Parker's time, during the restoration of 1863, as Zincke, vicar of Wherstead writing in 1887, records that "the font was the gift of the vicar". [NB: the new font was Zincke's own gift, then, since he notes his own start as vicar of Wherstead on 28 July 1847]. Knott (2008) notes and illustrates a modern font: "Another Ipswich craftsman, the stone mason James Williams, created the font with its elaborate carvings, including a terrific St Michael."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for the photographs of this font

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square

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]
  • Zincke, Foster Barham, Some materials for the history of Wherstead, Ipswich: Read & Barrett, 1887, p. 10