Suffield / Sulfelle / Sulfulle

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angel - holding shield - emblem - the instruments of the Passion

Scene Description: these may be modern re-carvings

Image Source: digital photograph taken October 2005 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/suffield/suffield.htm] [accessed 6 July 2009]

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design element - motifs - floral - rose

Scene Description: these may be modern re-carvings

Image Source: digital photograph taken October 2005 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/suffield/suffield.htm] [accessed 6 July 2009]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "15c west tower and late 13c chancel"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 20 September 1992 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Suffield St Margaret's church from SE [6919] 1992-09-20.jpg] [accessed 26 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1885902] [accessed 26 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1885900] [accessed 26 September 2013]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken October 2005 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/suffield/suffield.htm] [accessed 6 July 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 14932SUF

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret

Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]

Church Location: Suffield, Norfolk NR11 7EL

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 6 km WNW of North Walsham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of North Erpingham

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century [re-carved?] / 19th century?, Perpendicular [altered?]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in September 1992

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Neither of the two entries in Domesday for "Sulfelle" and "Sulfulle", transcribed and translated by Blomefiel (1805-1810) mentions either church or cleric in it; this same author (ibid.) writes: "The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Margaret. In the reign of Edward I.[1272-1307] Roger Bigot Earl of Norfolk was patron; the rector had a manse and 6 acres of land [...] Near the font, a gravestone with a brass plate". The present font is described in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Octagonal. Demi-figures of angels against the underside holding shields with the Instruments of the Passion." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2005), who comments: "the panels of the font are cemented over". The font is of the type in which the octagonal basin tapers off onto the octagonal stem without a break; in this case the panels of the basin are totally blank within the moulded sides; the angels and the rose motifs of the underbowl apear as either new or re-carved; the font appears either modern or totally re-tooled [NB: if the font is 15th-century, are the panels cemented over, as Knott suggests, or have they been re-carved? -- It is not common to find the Passion emblems on the underbowl with blank basin sides -- we have no information on the font from the 13th-century church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.83255, 1.31365

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 49′ 57.18″ N, 1° 18′ 49.14″ E

UTM: 31U 386395 5854976

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-07-06 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997