Ellough / El'gh / Elga Ellowe / Willingham All Saints
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B01: symbol - shield - hanging shield - blank - 4?
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1120308006_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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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B02: design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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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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B03: design element - motifs - floral - rosette
Scene Description: tiny ones set on the frames of the basin panels
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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
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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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view of font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2008 by Brokentaco [http://www.flickr.com/photos/92024986@N00/2936315808] [accessed 1 November 2009]
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view of church exterior - south portal
Scene Description: the font by the south entranceway
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]
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2009 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/ellough.htm] [accessed 28 February 2012]
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view of font in context
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Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2009 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/ellough.htm] [accessed 28 February 2012]
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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]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2009 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/ellough.htm] [accessed 28 February 2012]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11762ELL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 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
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints [redundant]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Church Road, Covehithe, Suffolk NR34 7TR, UK
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A145, 5 km SSE of Beccles
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Wangford
Additional Comments: composite font: the stem is of a later date
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]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 404223 5809054
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.4233, 1.5915
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 25′ 23.88″ N, 1° 35′ 29.4″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
REFERENCES
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]
- 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, vol. 1: 54