Stansfield

INFORMATION

FontID: 15652STA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A143, S of Hawkedon, in the Bansfield Benefice
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 13th century (late?) [basin only?] [composite font?], Medieval [composite]
Parker (1855) mentions a "late and debased" font cover, but not the font itself. The Bansfield Benefice web site page on the history of Stansfield [http://www.bansfieldbenefice.org.uk/stansfield/history/interior.html] [accessed 4 November 2009] notes: "At the West end of the nave is the mutilated late C13 font on a Victorian base."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855