Little Glemham
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Andrew's church in Little Glemham. Norman baptismal font."
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 16
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Lych gate, St Andrew's Church"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Mortimer, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 14 April 2022 by Simon Mortimer [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7390380] [accessed 31 May 2024]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Andrew's church in Little Glemham. View west." -- showing the font at the far end, beneath the tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 4 October 2011 by Evelyn Simak [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2633050] [accessed 31 May 2024]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 15600GLE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?) [basin only] -- 15th century [stem only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the tower
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Notes: [NB: Parker has the church dedication transposed with the one at Great Glemham].
Church Address: Little Glemham, Woodbridge IP13 0BH, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1728 768136
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A12, roughly equidistant between Wickham Market (SW) and Saxmundham (NE)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Additional Comments: composite font / altered font
Font Notes:
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A font of a composite nature is noted in Parker (1855), a basin of the Transitional Norman period, and the stem Perpendicular. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TM3465558712] notes: "C13 octagonal font, bowl of Purbeck marble with 2 shallow pointed arch panels to each face, central stem with 8 surrounding columns, octagonal base." Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble."
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 392681 5781859
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.17676, 1.4305
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 10′ 36.34″ N, 1° 25′ 49.8″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, flat and plain; modern
REFERENCES
- Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975, p. 76
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]