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view of church exterior - southeast view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2017 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5580096] [accessed 20 June 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15455ACT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: 2 Walnut Cl, Acton, Sudbury CO10 0UG, UK -- Tel.: +44 1787 377287
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off the A134, just NE of Sudbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Babergh
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 13th century (mid?), Early English
Church Notes: original church pre-1086; present church built ca. 1250(?)
There is an entry for this Acton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TL8945/acton/] [accessed 20 June 2019]; it reports a church and "0.25 church lands" in it. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TL8922345230] notes: "C13 flint church restored in the C19 and now mostly faced with cement. The west tower is of flint, the lower part with massive diagonal buttresses is of the C13 and the upper part was rebuilt 1913-23"; it mentions no font in it. Knott (2001) reports "remains of the medieval font, which was dug up in the Rectory garden" at the west end of the south aisle, and comments on "the mediocrity of the 19th century font". [NB: the current church is believed to have been built ca. 1250]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.0733, 0.76
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 4′ 23.88″ N, 0° 45′ 36″ E
UTM: 31U 346484 5771559

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-10-12 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.