Great Whelnetham / Great Welnetham

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B01: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - pointed quatrefoil - 8

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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 15701WHE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Thomas a Becket [aka St. Thomas of Canterbury]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Thomas of Canterbury [aka St. Thomas à Becket]
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located W of the A134, 3 km S of Bury St. Edmunds
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Additional Comments: [not mentioned in Knott -- Nov 2009]
Font Notes:
Noted in Parker (1855): "Font, an octagon, with panelled bowl". The octagonal basin has vertical sides decorated with deeply-carved floral motifs inscribed in pointed quatrefoils; graded underbowl chamfer; octagonal stem quth centre ring moulding; on an octagonal plinth. The wooden coveris octagonal and flat, with moulded top and sides, and metal handles on the top; modern.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]