South Elmham St. Cross / Sandcroft / South Elmham Sandcroft / South Elmham St. George
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
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Results: 12 records
B01: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - coat of arms - Bateman
![one of the shields has "sable, 3 crescents ermine within a bordure engrailed argent" [no information available on the other three shields -- cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1120302023_compressed.png)
Scene Description: one of the shields has "sable, 3 crescents ermine within a bordure engrailed argent" [no information available on the other three shields -- cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 10 July 2008 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/selstcross.html] [accessed 2 March 2012]
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B02: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant - 4
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 10 July 2008 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/selstcross.html] [accessed 2 March 2012]
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B03: design element - motifs - floral - square flower
Scene Description: a number of them on the frames of the basin panels
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 10 July 2008 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/selstcross.html] [accessed 2 March 2012]
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BU01: angel - cherub - 8
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1120302024_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 10 July 2008 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/selstcross.html] [accessed 2 March 2012]
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BU02: design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 8
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 10 July 2008 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/selstcross.html] [accessed 2 March 2012]
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UB01: animal - mammal - lion - sejant - 4
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 10 July 2008 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/selstcross.html] [accessed 2 March 2012]
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UB02: design element - architectural - buttress - 4
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 10 July 2008 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/selstcross.html] [accessed 2 March 2012]
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view of church exterior - south portal
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2008 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/selstcross.html] [accessed 2 March 2012]
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 10 July 2008 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/selstcross.html] [accessed 2 March 2012]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: the top of the font is visible on the (right) north side, opposite the open south door
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2008 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/selstcross.html] [accessed 2 March 2012]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2008 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/selstcross.html] [accessed 2 March 2012]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2008 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/selstcross.html] [accessed 1 June 2009]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 14762ELM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. George
Church Patron Saints: St. George
Church Location: South Elmham St Cross, Suffolk, IP20 0NX
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off the B1062, 8 km SW of Bungay
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Wangford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, N side, opposite the S entrance [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font / heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: the font at Metfield
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Suffolk Churches, for his photograph of this font
Font Notes:
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Suckling (1846-1848) writes: "The church was constructed about a century posterior to the Norman Conquest, though it retains few of its original features. [...] The arms of Bateman are [...] cut on the octangular font, which is removed from its original position." Parker (1855) does not mention a font in his entry for this church. Listed in Cautley (1982) in a group of 15th-century heraldic fonts in Suffolk. Illustrated in Knott (2008). The font is of the East Anglian type that alternates angels holding shields with gardant lions on the sides of the octagonal basin, the underbowl chamfer decorated with angels on the upper level and rosettes on the lower, four sedente lions alternating with buttresses on the square stem; there are traces of paint on the stone surface. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat with a slight overlap.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.40804, 1.379427
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 24′ 28.94″ N, 1° 22′ 45.94″ E
UTM: 31U 389765 5807659
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982
Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-06-01 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
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