Great Barton

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R01: design element - motifs - moulding
UB01: design element - architectural - column - columns with capitals and bases - 4
view of font and cover
INFORMATION
FontID: 15694BAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Innocents
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Innocents
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located on the A143, between Bury St. Edmunds and Ixworth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century (late?), Early English
Font Notes:
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Noted in One Suffolk [http://www.onesuffolk.co.uk/Villageofthemonth/GreatBarton.htm] [accessed 10 November 2009] as a baptismal font of the 1200s. The National Archives website [www.nationalarchives.gov.uk] lists an illustration of this font in The Spanton-Jarman Collection of Photographic Negatives ["Great Barton church, font K 505/1506 [n.d.]"]. The font consists of an octagonal basin with plain vertical sides; it has a moulding at the upper rim and a chamfer on the underbowl; raised on a plain central polygonal shaft and four outer colonnettes that are round and have moulded capitals and bases. The wooden cover is octagonal
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Notes: octagonal, with open-work spire; 19th-century?