Pre-Reformation baptismal font repaired with help from Church of England grant
[The Church of England] A baptismal font dating back to the Middle Ages has been restored and repaired more than 80 years after it was destroyed by German bombers during the Second World War. It features “extraordinary” carvings including St. Catherine, holding her wheel.
The font, installed in 1500 in the village church of Nettlestead St. Mary in the Diocese of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich, was reassembled using grey cement after being blown apart in 1940 by German bombers ditching their load into the Suffolk countryside on the way home from a raid.
The full restoration of the font took place this summer, thanks in part to a grant of more than $2,500 from the Pilgrim Trust, distributed by Church of England conservation staff through its conservation program.
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