Richard Shanon presents Rev Stéphane a silver bowl with its wooden table as a portable font for St Mary’s Stoke-by-Nayland.
He declared:
In short, I have given the parish a portable font ‘kit’ in memory of Sonia: I was helped in its design by advice from John Fowler, and the table was made by Dyland Pym to our joint design. When we were married, on 21st December 1963, her mother lived at the Old Forge in Thorington Street, so St.Mary’s was S’s parish church and we wed there (complete with naval Guard of Honour). Subsequently our daughter Tilly was married there, her daughter christened there. and her funeral held there, while both S and T’s ashes are buried in the churchyard. We have connections! The silver bowl was made by my father for his and my mother’s Silver Wedding in April 1960: Father was a schoolmaster and a man of many hobbies, of which silversmithing was but one, but he was very good with his hands.
