Hitcham nr. Stowmarket
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/hitcham.htm] [accessed 9 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 15682HIT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located on the B1115, between Hadleigh and Stowmarket
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of the modern font in this church
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Parker (1855) reports and octagonal font "with panelled bowl, most effectually defaced by whitewash". That font must have disappeared during renovations after Parker's visit; the present font, illustrated in Knott (2007?), is also octagonal, and decorated with tracery around the basin sides is 19th-century; the painted wooden cover is also modern. [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of the old font]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-11-09 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855