Wherstead / Querstede / Wervesteda
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view of basin
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
view of font in context
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
INFORMATION
FontID: 15620WHE
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 5 km S of Ipswich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for the photographs of this font
Font Notes:
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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."
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]. Accessed: 2009-10-28 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855
Zincke, Foster Barham, Some materials for the history of Wherstead, Ipswich: Read & Barrett, 1887