Mettingham / Metingaham / Metynham

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Results: 15 records
B01: angel - seated - holding shield - blank - 4?
B02: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant - 4?
B03: design element - architectural - buttress - pinnacled - 8?
B04: design element - motifs - floral - rosette
BU01: human figure - head - 8?
BU02: design element - motifs - floral - square flower - 8?
BU03: design element - motifs - floral - varied
LB01: animal - mammal - lion - sejant - 4?
LB02: design element - architectural - buttress - 4
P01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 32
view of church exterior - north portal
view of church exterior - south view
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of church interior - nave - looking west
INFORMATION
FontID: 11723MET
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: High Road, Mettingham, Suffolk, NR35 1TL
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 3 km E of Bungay
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich [formerly in the Diocese of Norwich]
Historical Region: Hundred of Wangford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font / heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: many similar in the area
Church Notes: round-tower church
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Suckling (1846-1848) writes: "At the time of the Norman Survey [i.e., 1086], Mettingham was returned among the possessions of Earl Hugh. It had then a church [...] There was a church at Mettingham in Saxon times, but the present edifice, though a very ancient structure, is of Norman foundation. [...] there is also a good octagonal font of stone". Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports: "the font is curiously sculptured". In Parker (1855), probably after Suckling. The baptismal font is of the East Anglia type, consisting of an octagonal basin with vertical deeply-carved panels containing seated angels alternating with seated lions, the panels separated here by well-rendered pinnacled buttresses; there are little rosettes on the frames of the panels; the underbowl chamfer has two levels; the upper level has human heads at the angles and square-flower motifs on the sides between; the lower level has square-flower motifs on the sides; the pedestal base has four seated lions alternating with four buttresses; wide octagonal plinth with four quatrefoils motifs on each side. The north portal of this church is Norman [NB: we have no information on the font from the Norman church here].
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 396001 5811079
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: rectangular
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855
Suckling, Alfred, The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk, with genealogical and architectural notices of its several towns and villages, London: John Weale [...], 1846-1848