Stowmarket / Stow Market

Noted in Parker (1855) as a poor font of the Perpendicular period. Knott (2008) writes: "the font stands rather forlornly in the extreme south-west corner, a utilitarian recutting of something that might once have been 13th century. There is what appears to be an 18th century font on an iron base set beside the tower arch." The early font has shallow windows with a variety of motifs in them (tracery, cross, etc.); plain shallow windows on the octagonal stem; the moulded lower base is also octagonal, as is the modern plinth. The wooden cover is a low octagonal pyramid of 19th-century appearance. It is not clear how much of the font is re-cut, and what it looked like originally, except for the general octagonal shape. The second font mentioned in Knott [cf. supra] is a round shallow basin mounted on a metal base.