Sweffling / Suefelingan / Suefelingua / Sueflinga / Sueflingan / Swefling

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 16

Font image
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

the font in cover in the foreground
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

Font ID: 15602SWE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
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]
Additional Comments: moved font / altered font
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."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for the photograph of this font

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 392865 5786640
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.219759, 1.431676
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 13′ 11.13″ N, 1° 25′ 54.04″ E

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]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
  • Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975, p. 78
  • Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]