Elmsett / Elmeseta
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
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Results: 5 records
B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 16 September 2009 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/elmsett.html] [accessed 6 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2009 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/elmsett.html] [accessed 6 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - west end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon KNott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2009 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/elmsett.html] [accessed 6 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font and cover are located in the north (right) bank of pews, towards the west end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2009 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/elmsett.html] [accessed 6 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 16 September 2009 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/elmsett.html] [accessed 6 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11104ELM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter, Elmsett
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, behind the N bank of pews
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17542256
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Elmsett, Ipswich IP7 6RQ, United Kingdom
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A1071, just NW of Hadleigh
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Cosford [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: altered font: covered in plaster; later stripped of it -- disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Elmsett [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM0546/elmsett/] [accessed 20 June 2025]; it reports "1 church. 0.12 church lands" in it. Parker (1855) reports a font "square on round legs" in this church. Noted in Cautley (1949) and (1982) as font of the 12th century covered in plaster. Noted in James Fielding [http://digitatlas.blogspot.com]: "Norman font with one arch on it (it looks like the decoration was never completed -- a side with a complete set of arches now faces the wall." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2009): the "Norman font sits on its blockish pedestal". The square basin is raised on a central shaft and four outer colonnettes, all round, as indicated in Parker above; the lower base is a square cube, and the plinth is also square and tiled at the top. The plaster mentioned in Cautley appears to have been removed now [October 2009] The wooden cover is conical, with moulded arrisses and a small knob finial; appears old, perhaps 17th- or 18th-century.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this church and font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-18th century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949, p. 23
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982, p. 65
- Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]