Southwold / Sudwolda
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Results: 17 records
view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Southwold, St. Edmund's Church: The font"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 27 February 2019 by Michael Garlick [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6075801] [accessed 14 April 2023]
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: notice the very large damage at the upper rim; it was likely caused by the metal staple of the cover anchoring, rather than vandalism
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 27 February 2019 by Michael Garlick [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6075801] [accessed 14 April 2023]
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design element - architectural - arcade
Scene Description: the arcade is now devoid of the figural carving that was housed in it [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 27 February 2019 by Michael Garlick [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6075801] [accessed 14 April 2023]
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design element - architectural - arch-head - crocketed - pinnacled
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 27 February 2019 by Michael Garlick [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6075801] [accessed 14 April 2023]
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design element - patterns - tracery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 27 February 2019 by Michael Garlick [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6075801] [accessed 14 April 2023]
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design element - patterns - tracery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 27 February 2019 by Michael Garlick [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6075801] [accessed 14 April 2023]
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design element - architectural - arch-head - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 27 February 2019 by Michael Garlick [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6075801] [accessed 14 April 2023]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Edmund's Church, Southwold. Grade I listed. Listing number 1384321. Church. c1430-70."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrew Abbott, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 17 September 2013 by Andrew Abbott [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6154901] accessed 14 April 2023]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Southwold, St. Edmund's Church: The font"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 27 February 2019 by Michael Garlick [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6075793] [accessed 14 April 2023]
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view of font and cover in context - east side
Scene Description: Source caption: "Southwold, St. Edmund's Church: The font"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 27 February 2019 by Michael Garlick [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6075789] [accessed 14 April 2023]
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view of church interior - looking west
![Source caption: "Southwold, St. Edmund's Church: The nave" -- with the font and cover at the far [west] end](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1230414015_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Southwold, St. Edmund's Church: The nave" -- with the font and cover at the far [west] end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 27 February 2019 by Michael Garlick [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6075855] [accessed 14 April 2023]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Southwold, St. Edmund's Church: The nave"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 27 February 2019 by Michael Garlick [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6075780] [accessed 14 April 2023]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: All the figural carving destroyed by Commonwealth fanatics -- contrast with the bottom of the font cover visible here
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Brokentaco, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2009 by Brokentaco [https://www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/5305383324/] [accessed 14 April 2023]
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 27 February 2019 by Michael Garlick [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6075801] [accessed 14 April 2023]
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design element - architectural - arch-head - 16 - crocketed - pinnacled
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 27 February 2019 by Michael Garlick [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6075801] [accessed 14 April 2023]
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design element - architectural - arcade
Scene Description: now devoid of the original figural carvings [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 27 February 2019 by Michael Garlick [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6075801] [accessed 14 April 2023]
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view of font cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Edmund's church in Southwold - font cover"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 June 2010 by Evelyn Simak [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1933657] [accessed 14 April 2023]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00766SOU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1480?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font
Cognate Fonts: Laxfield, Badingham.
Church / Chapel Name: Church of St. Edmund
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Edmund the Martyr [aka Edmund of East Anglia]
Church Address: 5 Bartholomew Grn, Southwold IP18 6JA, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1502 725424
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B1127, on the S side of Sole Bayt, about 20 km S of Lowestoft
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Blything [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: damaged font: all its sculptural work hacked off in the 17th century
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Southwold [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM5076/southwold/] [accessed 13 April 2023]; it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Poole (1848) quotes from William Dowsing's notorious diary: "Southwold. To take down the cover of the font" [cf. Dowsing (1885)]. Described in Bond (1908) as a baptismal font of the Seven-Sacrament type, one at which, "special pains were taken at hacking away every bit of the figure sculpture" by Dowsing and the fanatics ca. 1643. Noted in Cautley (1949). Nichols (1994) groups the three fonts at Laxfield, Southwold and Badingham in view of "the obvious structural similarities of these three fonts would also seem to argue a factory origin". All the reliefs have been destroyed. Knott (1999) says F.E. Howard, the 19th cent. architect responsible for the restoration of the roof, designed the seven metre font cover, based on the one at Little Walsingham in Norfolk (itself destroyed by fire in 1961). The open-work cover is the work of architect Frank Ernest Howard (1888-1934), pupil of Sir Ninian Comper, of Oxford; other font-covers by Howard are at Balsham (Cambs.), High Ham (Somerset), Bury St. Edmunds Cathedral (Suffolk) and Swansea St. Gabriel's.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 409955 5798370
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.32825, 1.678639
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 19′ 41.7″ N, 1° 40′ 43.1″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: pre-1642
Material: wood
Notes: Destroyed by Dowsing? [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 259
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949, p. 23
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982, p. 68
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 169
- Dowsing, William, of Stratford, The Journal of William Dowsing, of Stratford, Parliamentary visitor, appointed under a warrant from the Earl of Manchester, for demolishing the superstitious pictures and ornaments of churches &c., within the County of Suffolk, in the years 1643-1644, Ipswich: Pawsey and Hayes, 1885, p. 27
- Hutton, Graham, English Parish Churches, London: Thames & Hudson, 1976, p. 53-54
- Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
- Nichols, Ann Eljenholm, Seeable Signs: The Iconography of the Seven Sacraments 1350-1544, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1994, p. 4,80,311-312,348
- Poole, George Ayliffe, A History of Ecclesiastical Architecture in England, London: Printed by Joseph Masters, 1848, p. 399 / [http://books.google.com/books?id=vxkEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA66&lpg=PA66&dq=george+ayliffe+poole+1848+a+history+of+ecclesiastical+architecture+in+england&source=web&ots=MxN7ostq7i&sig=Rc5Z3xTsdqVhwZWhddPnaAUrxt4#PPA253,M1] [accessed 9 October 2007]
- Poole, George Ayliffe, The Appropriate Character of Church Architecture, Leeds; London: T.W. Green; Rivington, Burns, and Houlston and Stoneman, 1842, p. 77