Brockley / Brockley nr. Bury St. Edmunds
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Standing permission
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 16 April 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/brockley.html] [accessed 11 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/brockley.html] [accessed 11 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 15703BRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located between Bury St. Edmunds and Glemsford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the tower arch [not its original location? Cf. FontNotes]]
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
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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Parker (1855) notes: "The font has a plain octagonal basin and base, with central and angle shafts." Knott (2008) writes: "The lumpy colonaded font is older than just about any part of the church but not as old as the ironwork on the south door, which must be some of the oldest in East Anglia. The font sits proudly on its collanade beneath the tower arch, presumably moved there by the Victorians." Some (all?) of the columns of the base may be modern replacements. The wooden cover is octagonal and box-like; 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
Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-11-11 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855