Great Finborough
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2000/2008
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2000/2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2000/2008 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/gfinborough.htm] [accessed 30 September 2011]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2000/2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2000/2008 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/gfinborough.htm] [accessed 30 September 2011]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 15622FIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located on the B1115, 5 km S of Stowmarket
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Century and Period: 11th century / 14th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Suffolk Churches [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk], for his photographs of church and modern font
Font Notes:
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Parker (1855) reports a modern font in this church. The present font is illustrated in Knott (2008), an octagonal basin with tracery on the sides, raised on a central shaft and eight outer colonnettes, all modern. Wooden cover roughly in the style the old Jacobean design with raised scroll ribs, here converging on a cross; modern as well. [NB: the fabric of the church goes back to the 14th century, but we have no information on the earlier font; the present one dates probably from the 1870s renovation of the church, and has retained a 15th-century porch; the Domesday survey of 1086 reports a church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.18257, 0.94451
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 10′ 57.25″ N, 0° 56′ 40.24″ E
UTM: 31U 359472 5783336
REFERENCES
Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-10-29 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855