Baptismal Font - St.Michael's Church, The Street, Rendham, Suffolk IP17 2AG - Stone Church Artefacts on Waymarking.com

This Medieval parish church was restored in 1852 and has been awarded Grade II* listing. It is of a simple plan, nave, chancel, west tower, north porch, and north vestry. Built of random flint rubble with stone dressings, there are remains of old plaster-work on the east wall of the chancel, it has plaintiled roofs to the nave and porch, and slates to the chancel.

The tower is C15th, of four stages and has a crenellated parapet, there are diagonal buttresses to the west face, a two-light west window with a blocked niche above it, two-light Y-tracery bell chamber openings, and panelled flushwork to the parapet and buttresses. The nave has two C15th windows (one largely original) and a blocked doorway to the south, and one two-light C15th window to the north. The simple C15th porch has a knapped flint facade and an empty niche over the doorway.

The C14th chancel has two broad lancet windows and a Priest's doorway to the south, one two-light Y-tracery window to the north and a four-light east window with intersecting tracery.

The plain octagonal font is probably C19th, the bowl has plain sides with a double chamfer on its lower edge it is supported on an octagonal stem with recessed trifoil arches, all on a one-step plinth. It has a timber, carved scrolled cover made in 1966 and is placed at the west end of the south side of the nave opposite the entrance from the north porch.

Words from British Listed Buildings and Simon Knott's Suffolk Churches with additions from own on site observations.

Coordinates are for the north porch entrance.

Approximate Age of Artefact: C19th Relevant Website: Not listed

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