Surlingham No. 1 / Suterlingeham / Sutherlingaham

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B01: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant - 4

Scene Description: alternating with shield-holding angel demi-figures

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 18 June 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/surlingham/surlingham.htm] [accessed 27 August 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B02: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - Trinity

B03: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - the instruments of the Passion

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 18 June 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/surlingham/surlingham.htm] [accessed 27 August 2009]

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B04: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - East Anglia

Scene Description: three crowns

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 October 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3205158] [accessed 24 April 2013]

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B05: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - Eucharist

Scene Description: three chalices

BU01: angel - head - 8

Scene Description: the head at each corner, the wings spreading over the sides of the chamfer

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 18 June 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/surlingham/surlingham.htm] [accessed 27 August 2009]

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BU02: design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 8

Scene Description: one on each side, around the upper fringe of the pedestal of the base

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 18 June 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/surlingham/surlingham.htm] [accessed 27 August 2009]

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UB01: animal - mammal - lion - sejant - 4

Scene Description: alternating with buttresses

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 June 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/surlingham/surlingham.htm] [accessed 27 August 2009]

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UB02: design element - architectural - buttress - 4

Scene Description: alternating with seated lions

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 June 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/surlingham/surlingham.htm] [accessed 27 August 2009]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2020 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 24 August 2020)

view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 May 2009 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1280845] [accessed 24 April 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 October 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3205152] [accessed 24 April 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 October 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3205156] [accessed 24 April 2013]

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view of font

Image Source: B&W photograph in Cautley (1949: 127)

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the publisher

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 June 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/surlingham/surlingham.htm] [accessed 27 August 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover - east side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 October 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3205157] [accessed 24 April 2013]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05757SUR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Church Lane, Surlingham, Norfolk NR14 7DF

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off the A47, about 8 km WNW of Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Henstede [aka Henstead]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font / heraldic font

Cognate Fonts: The font at Wingfield; also the base of the Oulton font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font, and to Colin Smith for his photograph of this church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are eight entries for Surlingham in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TG3006/surlingham/] [accessed 24 August 2020] none of which mentions priest or church in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) names two parish churches in Surlingham and writes: "entered in Norwich Domesday Book; where it is said, that Surlingham St. Saviour had the same patroness with St. Mary [...] The church of St. Mary, hath a steeple about 50 feet high, round at bottom, and octangular at top, and four bells in it [...] The nave and north isle, are both twelve paces long, the church nine broad, and the isle three; the chancel is ten paces long and six broad; there is a south porch, all leaded. [...] On the font are the emblems of the 4 Evangelists, the shield of the instruments of the Passion, the emblem of the Trinity, that of the sacrament, viz. three cups, with a wafer on each of them, and the arms of the East Angles." The font is described in Chambers (1829): "On the font are the emblems of the four Evangelists, the shield of the instruments of the passion, the emblem of the Trinity, and that of the sacrament, with the arms of the East Angles." Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of 1870-1872) does not mention the font, but notes: "The church is old but good; and there was formerly another church, now a ruin." Noted and illustrated in Cautley (1949). Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Octagonal, C15. Against the stem four lions, against the bowl four lions and four angels holding shields with the symbol of the Trinity and the Instruments of the Passion and three crowns and three chalices." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2008): "the 15th century font is like a melting cheese, with deep set reliefs in the traditional East Anglian manner." Octagonal mounted baptismal font very similar to the font at Wingfield, Suffolk; the angles of the underbowl are, like those at Saxmundham and many other East Anglian fonts of this period, ornamented with angels on the upper level, with rosettes on the lower level; the octagonal pedestal base looks like the one at Oulton: each alternate side is occupied by a seated lion or a buttress; also like the font at Oulton, it has an octagonal lower base. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat with a know handle; modern. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original 11thC church here] [cf. Index entry for Surlingham No. 2 for the second parish church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.607394, 1.404164

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 36′ 26.62″ N, 1° 24′ 14.99″ E

UTM: 31U 391938 5829794

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Number of Pieces: two?

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810

Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949

Chambers, John, A General History of the County of Norfolk, intended to convey all the information of a Norfolk tour […], Norwich: J. Stacy, 1829

Friar, Stephen, The Sutton Companion to Churches, Thrupp, Stroud (Gloucs.): Sutton Publishing, 2003

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-08-27 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999

Wilson, John Marius, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales: embracing recent changes in counties, dioceses, parishes, and boroughs [...], Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., 1870-1872