South Elmham All Saints / South Elmham All Hallows

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 23

Scene Description: on three of the sides (8+8+7) [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 10 July 2008 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/selallsaints.html] [accessed 25 May 2009]

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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

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UB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: forming the capitals and bases of the columns of the base

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view of basin - northeast side

Scene Description: the zigzag on the east side is partially visible here

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2008 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/selallsaints.html] [accessed 2 March 2012]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the top of the font is visible in the westernmost bay of the south arcade

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2008 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/selallsaints.html] [accessed 2 March 2012]

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view of font - northwest side

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view of font - southwest side

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14732ELM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints [redundant]

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: South Elmham, Bungay, Suffolk, IP19 0PB

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 8 km SW of Bungay, 8 NW of Halesworth

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, in the second bay of the S nave arcade

Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Norman? / Transitional?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Suffolk Churches, for his photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: church redundant and under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Suckling (1846-1848) writes: "The Church of All Saints is a very ancient, rude, and singular structure. [...] The aisle was added about the year 1250, or a little earlier. [...] The interior decorations of this edifice offer to our notice an antique Norman font." Suckling (ibid.) further notes that the first rector recorded in this church is Adam Chastayn, in 1312. Described in Parker (1855): "Font, N[orman]; it consists of a square bowl on a round pedestal and legs." Listed in Cautley (1982) as a baptismal font of the 12th century. Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008) notes: " late-12thc. font of Purbeck marble. [...] In bay 2 of the S nave arcade, W of the central pier. It has a square bowl of Purbeck or Sussex marble that tapers markedly towards the base, and its basin is circular and lined with lead. The faces are decorated with arcading, or more exactly with round-headed vertical fluting, all except for the E face, partly hidden by the pier, which has incised vertical zigzag decoration. The bowl stands on the usual five shafts, all cylindrical and the central one much thicker than those at the angles. The shafts have no capitals, but necking rolls at the top. They stand on the usual single-slab base with cusping at the angles and faces, and integral chamfered bases for the shafts. This in turn stands on a modern step." Described and illustrated in Knott (2008): "The great square Norman font with its panelled sides sits on a pedestal at the back of the church". Two of the basin sides (south and west) have eight arches or pipes; the north side has only seven arches or pipes; the east side is decorated with a tall zigzag, as indicated in the CSRBI entry [cf. supra]; raised on a plain and broad central shaft, and four angle colonnettes with moulded capitals and bases; the lower base has rounded mouldings around the bases of the shafts. The whole is mounted on a tall quadrangular plinth, modern. The wooden cover is round and flat, plain.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.39364, 1.421638

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 23′ 37.1″ N, 1° 25′ 17.9″ E

UTM: 31U 392601 5805994

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

Diameter (inside rim): 51 cm*

Basin Total Height: 30 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 79 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 84 x 86 cm*

Notes on Measurements: *[CRSBI (2008)]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2012-03-01 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-05-25 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.

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