Suckley / Sockleye / Succhel / Succhelega / Suchelei / Suchelie / Suckeleia / Sucley / Sugeleg / Sukelei / Sukeley / Sukkel / Sykeley

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design element - motifs - lozenge

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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design element - motifs - roll moulding - double

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view of basin

Scene Description: notice the damage and repair on the upper rim

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view of basin

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view of basin

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view of basin

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view of font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09878SUC

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: Suckley, Worcestershire, WR6 5DE

Country Name: England

Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A44, about 20 km WSW of Worcester

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester

Historical Region: Hundred of Doddingtree

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SW corner, beneath the gallery, by the S entranceway

Date: ca. 1150?

Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Norman

Cognate Fonts: the font at Middle Littleton [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries dor Suckley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO7251/suckley/] [accessed 28 October 2014], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Noakes (1852) writes: "there is a circular font coeval with the oldest part of the building", which he suggests may be pre-Conquest, but his later 'Guide' (1868) has it as Norman. Miller (1890) reports a Norman font in the church here. The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "Before 1086 the church of Suckley had been given by William Earl of Hereford to the abbey he had founded at Cormeilles. [...] At the forfeiture of the earl's son and successor Roger in 1074 the Crown confirmed this endowment, [...] commuting the tithes for a sum found yearly entered on the Pipe Rolls, as allowed to the Sheriff of Worcester. [...] The present building was erected on the site of the old church, which was taken down in 1878–9. [...] The mid-12th-century font remains. It is circular and stands on a chamfered base, and the bowl is enriched with a lozenge ornament set between three rolls, one at the rim and two at the junction of the bowl with the stem." Pevsner (1968) likens its decoration to that on the font at Middle Littleton [cf. Index entry], and dates the font to the mid-12th century; "nice ogee-shaped cover, probably C17". Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2014) as a 12th-century basin from the old church raised on a later stem; the CRSBI (ibid.) refers to Pevsner's comparison with Middle Littleton and remarks that "the lozenges on the latter are crudely chip- carved and asymmetrical, lacking the precision of the work at Middle Littleton"; the CRSBI (ibid.) further notes that "there are related motifs on the font at Leigh, a few kilometres to the E[ast]". Described in the Parish web site [www.suckley.net/church.htm] as a tub-shaped baptismal font of the Norman period, dating from about 1150-1200, and a wooden domed cover of the 17th century.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.162318, -2.409727

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 9′ 44.35″ N, 2° 24′ 35.02″ W

UTM: 30U 540376 5779256

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead lining

Rim Thickness: 12 cm [calculated]

Diameter (inside rim): 60 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 84 cm*

Basin Depth: 30 cm*

Basin Total Height: 52 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2014)

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th century?

Material: wood,

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-04-20 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Brooks, Alan, Worcestershire, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2007

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2008-09-06 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

Noake, John, Noake's Guide to Worcestershire: the complete text, London; Worcester: Longman and Co.; J. Noake, 1868

Noake, John, The rambler in Worcestershire, or, Stray notes on churches and congregations, Worcester: Published and sold by all booksellers, 1848

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Worcestershire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968