Baptism Font, St Gregory - Sudbury, Suffolk
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N 52° 02.412 E 000° 43.558
31U E 344036 N 5767950
A beautifully decorated telescopic font cover dates from the 15th Century.
Waymark Code: WMME56
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 09/07/2014
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"St. Gregory's church contains some important woodwork, albeit that most of this is later. Above all, it includes one of the finest mediaeval font covers in England, rising in two tall tiers of gilded, crocketed, canopied niches, supported by flying buttresses. This is likely to date from the last quarter of the fifteenth century even though the font itself - formed of a shallow octagonal bowl cambered out above a narrow octagonal stem with bowtells at the angles and two narrow blank lights on each face - is generally accepted to be of Archbishop Simon's time." (ca 1375)
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