Fornham St. Martin

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B01: design element - patterns - tracery - varied

Scene Description: could be a later re-carved or re-tooled

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B02: symbol - shield - blank

Scene Description: could be a later re-carved or re-tooled

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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: could be a later re-carved or re-tooled

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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: could be a later re-carved or re-tooled

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15705FOR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located just N of Bury St. Edmund's
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century [basin only?] [re-tooled?] / 19th century [composite font], Perpendicular? / Modern?
Of the three Fornhams in Suffolk (St. Genevieve, All Saints and St. Martin) we have only been able to identify/locate one baptismal font, the one at St. Martin, which is described in Parker (1855) as "an octagon, with panelled bowl". This font consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with tracery and shields inscribed in panels, raised on a plain octagonal stem and a moulded lower base of the same shape; the font appears to be of late date, unless the basin surface has been re-carved or re-tooled.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: round; appears modern

REFERENCES

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