Ellough / El'gh / Elga Ellowe / Willingham All Saints

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Results: 10 records
B01: symbol - shield - hanging shield - blank - 4?
B02: design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose
B03: design element - motifs - floral - rosette
Scene Description: tiny ones set on the frames of the basin panels
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken December 2009 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/ellough.htm] [accessed 28 February 2012]
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BU01: design element - motifs - floral - varied - 8
view of church exterior - south portal
view of church exterior - south view
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the baptismal font visible at the far (west) end, by the tower entrance
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2009 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/ellough.htm] [accessed 28 February 2012]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font
INFORMATION
FontID: 11762ELL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints [redundant]
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Church Road, Covehithe, Suffolk NR34 7TR
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off the A145, 5 km SSE of Beccles
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Wangford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 15th century [basin and lower base only] [composite font], Late Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: the basin is similar to the one at nearby Ilketshall St. John
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes:
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Noted in Suckling (1846-1848: "an octangular font, ornamented with rosettes and shields, at the west end of the nave." Noted in Parker (1855) with much the same information, and probably after Suckling. The font consists of an octagonal basin with hanging blank shields and floral motifs [at least one of them a Tudor rose] alternating on the sides; the frames in which these motifs are included have little rosettes all around; the upper level of the underbowl appears plain, the lower level has floral motifs on the sides; on a plain circular pedestal base, which must be a later replacement; the lower base has the mouldings a platform-like shapes to accommodate the tradional pedestal of the East Anglia type of font, lions at the angles and buttresses or woodwosses on the sides; the whole original stem is however missing; raised on a two-step plinth; modern. [NB: the basin is similar to the one at nearby Ilketshall St. John, and the original -now missing- pedestal base would have probably been much the same as Ilketshall's]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.4233, 1.5915
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 25′ 23.88″ N, 1° 35′ 29.4″ E
UTM: 31U 404223 5809054
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
REFERENCES
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