Southill / South Hill / Southyevel / Sudgible / Sudgiuele / Sudgivele

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10618SOU

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: 27 School Lane, Southill, Central Bedfordshire SG18 9LL

Country Name: England

Location: Bedfordshire, East

Directions to Site: Located 8 km from Biggleswade, 13 km SE of Bedford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans

Historical Region: Hundred of Wichestanestou [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Wixamtree

Date: ca. 1166?

Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for Southill [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL1442/southill/] [accessed 16 September 2015], none of which mention cleric or church in it. Lysons (1806-1833) note that the baptismal font in this Perpendicular church "is square, and has its sides ornamented with pointed arches". The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The advowson of Southill Church was part of the original endowment of Newnham Priory [...] [i.e., 1166] by Simon de Beauchamp, as is confirmed in the second charter of Henry I, inspected in 1317 [...] the lower part of the tower is of stone and of mediaeval date [...] The font, which is modern and stands in the centre of the nave between the north and south doors, is octagonal with panelled sides." Pevsner (1968) notes only a modern font: "A fine piece with a shallow bowl, by Sir Albert Richardson, 1937." [NB: we have no information on the font of the 12th-century church here] -- [cf. Index entry for Clapham, Beds. as locals suggest their font may have been originally from Southill]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.06904, -0.33097

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 4′ 8.54″ N, 0° 19′ 51.49″ W

UTM: 30U 682932 5772079

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-10-18 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Lysons, Daniel, Magna Britannia, being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain, London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806-1822

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968