Font - St Mary's Church, Monewden, Suffolk, IP13 7DA - Stone Church Artefacts on Waymarking.com

The parish church of St.Mary is a Grade II* listed building. There are some Cllth or C12th fragments but the church is mainly c1300 with some C15th additions. Built of rubble and knapped flint and rendered with ashlar dressings it has a brick and plain tile roof and is simple in plan, a nave, a chancel, a west tower and south-western porch.

Internally the church was refurbished in c.1906 but not all the old fixtures were changed. Eleven benches to the nave are either wholly or partially of mediaeval date with poppyhead decoration, and the Rood staircase with both openings are still there. There is one of the few wooden chancel arches in Suffolk, at once simple and elegant, and draws the eye towards an excellent window of the Crucifixion, installed here after the First World War as a memorial.

The octagonal font, probably C15th, has suspended shields, now defaced, in the recessed panels of the bowl, and the octagonal stem has blind tracery. There is the remains of whitewash on all surfaces. It is placed on an octagonal step and plinth with chamfered feet at the west end of the nave on the centre line of the church.

The coordinates are for the south porch.

Approximate Age of Artefact: C15th Relevant Website: Not listed

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