Southolt / Southold

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Results: 7 records

B01: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol - 4

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B02: angel - holding shield - 4

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BU01: angel - cherub - 8

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BU02: design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 8

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UB01: animal - mammal - lion - sejant - 4

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UB02: human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose - with club - 4

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view of font and cover in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14776SOU
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Location: Southolt, Eye IP23 7QJ, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B1077, 7 km SE of Eye, 12-13 km SE of Diss
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Hoxne
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font / Evangelists' font / heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Suffolk Churches, for his photograph of this font
No individual entry found for Southolt in the Domesday survey. Parker (1855) reports as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period here, octagonal, with the Evangelists' symbols on the sides of the basin. Cautley (1982) notes a simple 17th-century cover on this font. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TM1934168870] notes: "Redundant parish church. C15 nave and porch, late C18 chancel (a brick at east end scratch-dated 1771). Restored 1907 [...] C15 octagonal font, the bowl panels carved with the signs of the Evangelists and shield-bearing angels; lions and woodwoses against the stem. The carving has been partially renewed." Font and cover are noted and illustrated in Knott (2008): "fine 15th century font, similar to the one up the road at Worlingworth. It is topped by a 17th century font cover." The font is of the East Anglian type that has the symbols of the four Evangelists alternating with four other motifs on the sides of the basin, in this case, angels holding shields; on the upper level of the underbowl cherubs at the angles; below, the usual rosettes on the sides; the square stem has sedente lions at the angles and woodwooses at the sides; on an octagonal plinth. The wooden cover consists of an octagonal platform with a pyramid of the same shape topped with a cross finial.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.27451, 1.2137
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 16′ 28.24″ N, 1° 12′ 49.32″ E
UTM: 31U 378126 5793074

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

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.
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855