Whatfield No. 1
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Standing permission
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font and cover at the west end, beneath the gallery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2009 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/whatfield.html] [accessed 10 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 16 September 2009 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/whatfield.html] [accessed 10 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 15691WHA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 5 km N of Hadleigh, 15 km NE of Subury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font
Font Notes:
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Noted in Parker (1855): "Font, a plain octagon, on round legs". Noted and illustrated in the context of the church interior in Knott (2009): "a plain, blockish thing". The font is indeed a plain octagonal basin raised on a central shaft and eight thin colonnettes, on a plain octagonal lower base/plinth. The wooden cover is an octagonal pyramid. [cf. Index entry for Whafield No. 2 for a holy-water stoup of the 13th century in this curch]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-11-10 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855