Trimley St. Martin, Tremeleaia / Tremlega / Tremlye / Tremele / Tremeleye, Tremleye / Tremley

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Image Source: photograph in the CRSBI [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-sf-triml.html] [accessed 21 October 2009]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 14734TRI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [re-cut], Norman [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Martin, Trimley
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the N transept
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Address: High Rd, Trimley, Felixstowe IP11 0TN, United Kingdom
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A14, near [now a NW suburb of] Felixtowe
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Additional Comments: altered font / re-cut / re-tooled -- disappeared font? (the ones from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
There are four entries for Trimley [St Martin and St Mary] [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/trimley-st-martin-and-st-mary/] [accessed 20 July 2025], one of which, in the tenancy of Roger Bigot, reports "2 churches. 0.23 church lands" in it. Parker (1855) reports a modern font in this church, but Cautley (1982) lists a baptismal font of the 12th century in it. In Pevsner and Radcliffe (1975). The entry for this church in the CRSBI (2008) remarks that "the only feature that may be Romanesque is the font", and notes that "The bowl has vertical claw-chisel tooling on its faces and chamfer, and this is apparently modern, as is the cutting of the zigzag decoration […] The font bowl may be a completely plain 12thc. bowl that has been retooled and decorated in the 19thc. The supports and base may also be original" [NB: the Church of St. Mary stands in the same churchyard; there is no reported font for this church, which may have been built in the 13th century]

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 384264 5760790
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.98571, 1.3146
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 59′ 8.56″ N, 1° 18′ 52.56″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Diameter (inside rim): 43 cm*
Basin Total Height: 25 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 75 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 61 x 61 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI

REFERENCES

  • Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982, p. 65
  • 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. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.