Whatfield No. 2
INFORMATION
FontID: 15692WHA
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: By the S doorway
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Knott (2009) writes: "Perhaps the greatest treasure of the building is the elegant 13th Century holy water stoup by the south doorway. Did it come from here originally, I wonder?" [cf. Index entry for Whafield No. 1 for a plain font of the 14th century in this curch]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
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.