Metfield / Medefield / Metefield

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/metfield.htm] [accessed 1 June 2008]

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angel - holding shield - coat of arms - unidentified - 4

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph 2007 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/metfield.htm] [accessed 1 June 2008]

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animal - mammal - lion - gardant - 4

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph 2007 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/metfield.htm] [accessed 1 June 2008]

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angel - cherub - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph 2007 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/metfield.htm] [accessed 1 June 2008]

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph 2007 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/metfield.htm] [accessed 1 June 2008]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph 2007 taken by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/metfield.htm] [accessed 17 April 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font at the west end, centre aisle

Image Source: digital photograph 2007 taken by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/metfield.htm] [accessed 17 April 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph 2007 taken by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/metfield.htm] [accessed 17 April 2013]

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animal - mammal - lion - sejant - 4

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph 2007 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/metfield.htm] [accessed 1 June 2008]

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design element - architectural - buttress - 4

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph 2007 by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/metfield.htm] [accessed 1 June 2008]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 14765MET

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font / heraldic font

Cognate Fonts: the font at South Elmham St. Cross

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, centre aisle, beneath the gallery

Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist

Church Address: Skinner's Lane, Metfield, Suffolk IP20 0LQ

Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located 8 km SE of Harleston, near the county border with Norfolk

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Edmundsbury & Ipswich

Historical Region: Hundred of Hoxne

Additional Comments: painted font -- remains of paint on the stone

Font Notes: Click to view

No individual entry found for Metfield in the Domesday survey. A font in the church at "Medefield" / "Metefield" is mentioned in Blomefield (1805-1810): "In 1428, Sir John Jermy, Knt. and Margaret Mounteney his wife, owned this and Withersdale manors; and he it was, that rebuilt this church and manor-house, where he placed the matches of his family in the windows; and his own arms are carved several times on the timber of the roof, and are still in several windows, and in stone on the font; he died in 1487". This church is noted in White's Directory of 1844 (p. 467) but not the font. The font is noted in Parker (1855): "Font, an octagon, with the emblems of the Evangelists round the bowl." [NB: four of the sides are decorated with demi-figures of angels holding charged shields, the other four have lions sejant-gardant, not the Evangelists]. Listed in Cautley (1982) in a group of 15th-century heraldic fonts in Suffolk. Illustrated in Knott (2007); 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.

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

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 388962 5803791

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.373121, 1.368911

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 22′ 23.24″ N, 1° 22′ 8.08″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 5: 372-387 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78196] [accessed 17 April 2013]
Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982, p. 67
Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]