Southill / South Hill / Southyevel / Sudgible / Sudgiuele / Sudgivele
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Scene Description: the modern font
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Kelly, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 November 2004 by Dave Kelly [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3236008] [accessed 16 September 2015]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 10618SOU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1166?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: 27 School Lane, Southill, Central Bedfordshire SG18 9LL
Site Location: Bedfordshire, East, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the ca.1166 church here)
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 30U 682932 5772079
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.06904, -0.33097
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 4′ 8.54″ N, 0° 19′ 51.49″ W
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. 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, vol. I: p. 32
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968, p. 145