Syleham / Seilam / Seilanda
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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 church exterior - southwest view
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David, 2009
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view of church interior - looking east
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view of church interior - looking west
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design element - motifs - moulding
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design element - motifs - scroll or curl - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2012
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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
Font ID: 14777SYL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [base only?] -- 14th century [basin only] -- [composite font?], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Notes: round-tower church
Church Address: Syleham, Eye IP21 4LN, UK
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: altered font? Composite font? -- two fonts? -- disappeared font? (the one of the Domesday-time church here)
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
UTM: 31U 379945 5803018
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.36427, 1.2368
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 21′ 51.37″ N, 1° 14′ 12.48″ E
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, p. 87
- 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. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Mortlock, Derek P., The Popular Guide to Suffolk Churches, 1988-, vol. 2: 209-210
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]