Syleham / Seilam / Seilanda
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design element - motifs - moulding
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design element - motifs - scroll or curl - 4
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of church interior - looking east
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view of church interior - looking west
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Margaret's church in Syleham. Baptismal font with C12 (Norman) base." [cf. FontNotes]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Ron Baxter, 2008
Image Source: photograph taken in 2005 [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-sf-syleh.html] [accessed 24 October 2009]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 14777SYL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Location: Syleham, Eye IP21 4LN, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located S of the A143, E of Hoxne, on the S bank of the Swaveney river, 10 km E of Diss, near the Norfolk border
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Bishop's
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th century [base only?] -- 14th century [basin only] -- [composite font?], Medieval [composite]
Church Notes: round-tower church
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Syleham [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM2078/syleham/] [accessed 31 December 2019], one of which reports "1 church. 0.13 church lands" in it. Parker (1855) notes: "Font, transition N[orman], an octagon, on a square pedestal." Cautley (1982) notes a font cover of 1667 in this church. In Mortlock-1998- ) with date in the 14th century. The http://www.onesuffolk.co.uk/SylehamPC/Church/ web site notes: "Immediately in view as one enters the church is the font, thought to be 14th century on an earlier base – suggested to be a very old font turned upside down. The wooden cover is dated 1667." The CRSBI (2008) illustrates the font and notes: "The font is small, plain and octagonal, possibly 14thc. according to Mortlock. It stands on a much earlier base with angle volutes; probably part of the inverted bowl of a 12thc. Font […] It seems certain that the font base is an inverted font bowl cut down, although no other font in the area follows this design." [NB: the CRSBI is right in pointing out the unlikely design of the base as a baptismal font; perhaps it is not a basin at all].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.36427, 1.2368
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 21′ 51.37″ N, 1° 14′ 12.48″ E
UTM: 31U 379945 5803018
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Height of Base: 34 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 70 x 70 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * The CRSBI entry gives the measurements of the lower base: height=34 cm -- square=70 x 70 cm
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1667
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2009-10-23 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Mortlock, Derek P., The Popular Guide to Suffolk Churches, 1988-
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855