Haverhill
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15650HAV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century [restored], Perpendicular [altered?]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17545760
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: The church is in the town centre, on the square
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Additional Comments: altered font / damaged font / restored font
Font Notes:
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Reported in Parker (1855) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period, "much mutilated and modernized". Knott (2007?) notes: " Mortlock tells us that the font cover is the work of Frederick Gibberd, famous as the designer of the Catholic Cathedral in Liverpool".
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
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]