Surfleet / Suerefelt / Sverefelt
Image copyright © Bob Harvey, 2023
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Results: 12 records
design element - architectural - buttress - 8
design element - motifs - floral
Scene Description: between the lower ends of the buttresses
design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julian P Guffogg, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph 26 January 2024 by Julian P Guffogg [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7697452] [accessed 16 February 2025]
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 16
design element - motifs - quatrefoil - with inscribed symbol or motif
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
design element - motifs - rosette - 8
symbol - shield - in a quatrefoil
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St. Laurence, Surfleet. The top of the tower is 6 feet off perpendicular; a result of subsidence common on the soft ground of the Fenlands."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tim Heaton, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph 22 February 2004 by Tim Heaton [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/73806] [accessed 16 February 2025]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior, St Laurence's church, Surfleet. Looking east along the nave."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julian P Guffogg, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph 26 January 2024 by Julian P Guffogg [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7697443] [accessed 16 February 2025]
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St Laurence: The Font. An early 15th century font, here decorated for the harvest festival."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bob Harvey, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 30 September 2023 by Bob Harvey [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7612366] [accessed 16 February 2025]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Font, St Laurence's church Surfleet. An octagonal font from the perpendicular period with a decorated stem. The bowl has quatrefoils with leaf decoration."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julian P Guffogg, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph 26 January 2024 by Julian P Guffogg [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7697452] [accessed 16 February 2025]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5
INFORMATION
FontID: 01646SUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Laurence
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: 2 Station Rd, Surfleet, Spalding PE11 4DA, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1775 725698
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 6 km N of Spalding
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Kirton [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Surfleet [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF2528/surfleet/] [accessed 16 February 2025]; it mentions neither priest nor church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) lists a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Octagonal, Perp[endicular]. Prettily decorated stem (cf. Pinchbeck). Bowl with quatrefoilsand close leaf decoration inside and outside the quatrefoils." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF2513328230] reports: "Parish church. C13, C14, C15, restored 1830 and 1900-1908 [...] Early C15 octagonal font with quatrelobes with shields and fleurons to sides, buttressed stem with niches and further quatrelobes."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.836373, -0.143938
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 50′ 10.94″ N, 0° 8′ 38.18″ W
UTM: 30U 692374 5857891
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal platform with raised crocketed scroll ribs ; large Maltese cross finial
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989