Sweffling / Suefelingan / Suefelingua / Sueflinga / Sueflingan / Swefling
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 16
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken February 2009 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/sweffling.htm] [accessed 27 October 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the font in cover in the foreground
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2009 by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/sweffling.htm] [accessed 27 October 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 15602SWE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off road B1119, 5 km WNW of Saxmundham, 7 km E of Framlingham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Plomesgate [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for the photograph of this font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There are four entries for Swefling [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM3463/swefling/] [accessed 2 June 2024], one of which reports "1 church. 0.12 church lands" in it. Parker (1855) notes: "Font, early; an octagonal bowl, with slightly sunk panels; it has been removed from its original position, and put within the arch of the piscina." Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble. Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TM3473463849] notes: " Parish church. Medieval; restored 1832 and late C19 [...] C13 Purbeck marble font bowl on modern base". Described and illustrated in Knott (2009): "The font is made of grey Purbeck marble. It's an off-the-peg job of the 13th century, with curved arches all around. I think it is an attractive example, despite the modern shaft. The font at nearby Farnham is a 19th century copy of this style."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.219759,
1.431676
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 13′ 11.13″ N,
1° 25′ 54.04″ E
UTM: 31U 392865 5786640
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-10-27 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
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