Stanstead nr. Glemsford

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B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8
BU01: design element - motifs - moulding
view of font and cover
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?]
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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