Little Glemham

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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"

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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

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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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INFORMATION

FontID: 15600GLE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Little Glemham, Woodbridge IP13 0BH, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1728 768136
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off the A12, roughly equidistant between Wickham Market (SW) and Saxmundham (NE)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the tower
Century and Period: 12th century (late?) [basin only] -- 15th century [stem only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church Notes: [NB: Parker has the church dedication transposed with the one at Great Glemham].
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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.17676, 1.4305
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 10′ 36.34″ N, 1° 25′ 49.8″ E
UTM: 31U 392681 5781859

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
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855