Elmsett

Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009

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Results: 5 records

B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches

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]

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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]

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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]

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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 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

FontID: 11104ELM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A1071, just NW of Hadleigh
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, behind the N bank of pews
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this church and font
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.

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
Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982
Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-11-06 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855