Brent Eleigh / Ely Brent / Ilelega / Lelega
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view of font and cover in context - southwest side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 October 2006 by David [www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/231178347/] [accessed 31 December 2019]
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 16
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1191231024_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David, 2006
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 2 October 2006 by David [www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/231178347/] [accessed 31 December 2019]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 October 2006 by David [www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/231178766/] [accessed 31 December 2019]
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view of church interior - chancel - painting - detail
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view of church interior - chancel and east end
Scene Description: the mural paintings on the east wall had been vandalised in 2016 but had been restored when this photograph was taken in October 2017
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2017 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5581617] [accessed 31 December 2019]
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view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2017 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5581611] [accessed 31 December 2019]
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view of font and cover in context - west side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2017 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5581632] [accessed 31 December 2019]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: the font and cover are partially visible in the south aisle, by the south doorway
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2017 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5581626] [accessed 31 December 2019]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: dgital photograph taken 4 February 2008 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/brent.html] [accessed 2 June 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14774BRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century (early?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S arcade
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Hall Rd, Brent Eleigh, Babergh CO10, UK
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A1141, 10 km NW of Hadleigh, E of Lavenham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Babergh
Additional Comments: altered font (only the basin is original)
Font Notes:
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There are five entries for [Brent and Minks] Eleigh [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/brent-and-monks-eleigh/] [accessed 31 December 2019], one of which reports "1 church. 0.18 church lands" in it. Parker (1855) writes: "Font, an octagon, with plain and slightly sunk panels in the bowl". Cautley (1982) notes the simple 17th-century font cover. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TL9420848244] notes: "An early C14 stone and flint building [...] The font is early C14 with a C17 cover". Both font and cover are noted and illustrated in Knott (2008): "Purbeck marble font with its elegant cover at the west end of the south arcade"; the font consists of an octagonal basin with pairs of shallow pointed arches on each side; raised on a plain octagonal stem and an octagonal plinth; the font is against one of the pillars of the south arcade. The wooden cover is an octagonal pyramid, the lower half solid and decorated with incised panels, the upper open-work of turned rods forming a cage; decorated finial. Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble, Polygonal I Type (Octagonal): no details [source given: Pevsner].
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 351662 5773994
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.096593, 0.834445
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 5′ 47.74″ N, 0° 50′ 4″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982, p. 87
- Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
- Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975, p. 76
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]