Brent Eleigh / Ely Brent / Ilelega / Lelega

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Results: 9 records

design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 16

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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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

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view of church interior - looking east

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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

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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]

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view of font and cover in context - southwest side

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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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INFORMATION

FontID: 14774BRE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Hall Rd, Brent Eleigh, Babergh CO10, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
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
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S arcade
Century and Period: 14th century (early?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.096593, 0.834445
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 5′ 47.74″ N, 0° 50′ 4″ E
UTM: 31U 351662 5773994

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
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.
Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855