Haverhill

INFORMATION

FontID: 15650HAV
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: The church is in the town centre, on the square
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century [restored], Perpendicular [altered?]
Font Notes:
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]. Accessed: 2009-11-04 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855