Stanstead nr. Glemsford

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B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8

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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15687STA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located just N of Glemsford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 15th century [re-cut or re-tooled], Perpendicular [altered?]
Noted in Parker (1855): "Font, octagonal, with plain quatrefoils on the sides." The font consists of an octagonal basin with a large deeply-cur quatrefoil on each side, obviously re-carved or re-tooled in modern times; moulded underbowl chamfer; plain octagonal stem with splaying lower base; on a narrow rectangular plinth. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; modern.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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