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Under the Tudor tower stands the massive square font. Originally thought to be of Purbeck marble, it has more recently been identified as Tournai stone quarried from the banks of the Scheldt (Escaut) in Wallonia. It is one of only ten such examples in English churches (another is not far away at St Peter's, Ipswich). On the south wall of the tower are 19th-century boards with the Lord's Prayer, Creed and Commandments, formerly forming a reredos and removed here in 1913 when the present marble reredos was installed. The rope is for tolling Boulge's only remaining bell, cast at Colchester in 1626 for Mickfield church in TM1361 and relocated here when that church was made redundant, to replace the cracked bell cast in 1700, the sole survivor of an original ring of three - the other two were sold in 1821 to raise funds for repairs. Link