Sotherton / Soderton / Sudretuna

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 8

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view of church exterior - north view

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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view of church interior - looking west

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view of font and cover in context - northwest side

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14772SOT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Sotherton, Beccles NR34 8ES, UK -- Tel.: +44 1502 725 424 / 1502 724 115
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: W of the A145 [aka London Rd], 6 km NE of Halesworth, 11 km S of Beccles
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Blything
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, in the tower area
Century and Period: 15th century [basin only] [composite font], Late Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font
Church Notes: church re-built 1854
There is an entry for Sotherton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM4479/sotherton/] [accessed 1 January 2020]; it reports "1 church. 0.04 church lands" in it. Parker (1855) notes: "The font has an early octagonal pedestal, on which is a poor P[erpendicular] bowl, with a nondescript cover." Cautley (1982) notes the 17th-century cover as "charming". Both font and cover are noted and illustrated in Knott (2008). The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TM4412279484] notes; "Parish church. Rebuilt 1854 [...] C15 octagonal font: the panels of the bowl are carved with alternate blank shields and flowers, with fleuron-enriched borders, and are unusually well preserved; the stem, supported by 4 lions, is in similar condition but may be a C19 copy of the original. Early C17 pyramidal font cover with pierced finial." The font is of the East Anglian type, the octagonal basin with shields and roses alternating on the sides, cherubs and rosettes respectively on the two levels of the underbowl chamfer, and sedente lions and the angles of the stem alternating with buttresses on the sides [NB: the font appears to be in very good shape, suspiciously neat and sharp, and the base is said to be a replacement copy]. The wooden cover is octagonal and tall but of fairly simple design: a decorated octagonal base and a tall pyramid with decorated arrises and fimial, but the sides are plain.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.36006, 1.5848
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 21′ 36.22″ N, 1° 35′ 5.28″ E
UTM: 31U 403630 5802029

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th century (early)?
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: yes; pulley
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: 2009-06-02 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855