Sudbury No. 3
Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2009
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B01: design element - motifs - tracery - 8
Scene Description: the same motif repeated on the eight sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 November 2009 by Janice Tostevin
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 November 2009 by Janice Tostevin
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15688SUD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century [basin only] [composite font], Late Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7595292
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the Market Hill, in the city centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Additional Comments: altered font: base is modern replacement
Font Notes:
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Parker (1855) notes: "The basin of the original font has been fixed on a modern pedestal." Knott (1999) remarks: "The font has a splendid cover, with a lantern top. There is a story that the font was removed during the Puritan era to be used as a feeding bowl for pigs." The octagonal base appears to be a 19th-century replacement.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janice Tostevin for her photographs of this font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]