Hemley / Halmelega / Halmeleia / Helmelea
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2020
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Results: 3 records
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 16
Scene Description: Source caption: "The only medieval survival is the square font, a battered early example of the 13th century arcaded Purbeck marble fonts which are found so frequently along the East Anglian coast."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2020
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 7 August 2020 by Simon Knott [https://www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/50204826693/in/album-72157629759151441/] [accessed 13 February 2023]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior in context - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Mortimer, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 30 December 2011 by Simon Mortimer [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2746105] [accessed 13 February 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5
view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "font (13th Century). All Saints, Hemley, Suffolk"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2020
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 7 August 2020 by Simon Knott [https://www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/50204826693/in/album-72157629759151441/] [accessed 13 February 2023]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 02494HEM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: 4QE, 2 Church Ln, Hemley, Woodbridge IP12 4QD, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 1-2 km S of Waldingfield, on the W bank of the Deben river, about 10 km ESE of Ipswich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Colnes [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/] for his photograph of this font
Church Notes: Open during the day (S. Knott)
There are five entries for Hemley [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM2842/hemley/] [accessed 13 February 2023], one of which, in the tenancy of Ranulf brother of Ilger in 1086, reports "1 church. 0.06 church lands". Knott (1999, Hemley p. 2) dates the font to ca. 1250, "the only ancient item remaining in the building". The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TM2855242352] notes: "Parish Church. Tower late C15; original nave and chancel C14, were totally rebuilt c.1889 [...] The font c.C13-C14 has square bowl supported on a central pillar and 4 pillars at the corners on a cushion shaped base." Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble: "bowl with traces of four panels on each face" [source given: Pevsner]. The outer surfaces of the basin sides have been repaired with cement, which now hides much of the arcade pattern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.0323,
1.3303
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 1′ 56.28″ N,
1° 19′ 49.08″ E
UTM: 31U 385461 5765947
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975
