Monks Eleigh / Monkseleigh / Ilelega / Lelega
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Standing permission
Results: 5 records
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/monkseleigh.html] [accessed 9 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - floral
Scene Description: a 17thC (?) carving on a 13thC (?) font?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 16 September by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/monkseleigh.html] [accessed 9 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 16 September by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/monkseleigh.html] [accessed 9 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © mym, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 January 2004 by mym [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4043] [accessed 5 February 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 16 September by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/monkseleigh.html] [accessed 9 November 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15684MON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: 12 Church Hill, Monks Eleigh, Ipswich IP7 7JQ, UK -- Tel.: +44 1449 402 245
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A1141-B1115 cross-roads, 3 km W of Bildeston, 10 km NW of Hadleigh, 13 km NE of Sudbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Babergh
Additional Comments: altered font (17thC (?) cartouche on a 13thC font?)
Font Notes:
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There are five entries for [Brent and Minks] Eleigh [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/brent-and-monks-eleigh/] [accessed 31 December 2019], one of which reports "1 church. 0.18 church lands" in it. Parker (1855) notes: "Font, E[arly] E[nglish], on legs […] The font has a tolerable cover, of a later date than the font". English Heritage [Listing NGR: TL9662147752] (1958) reports: "The font is C13 with a square bowl on a moulded central shaft and 4 corner pillars." Both font and cover are noted and illustrated in Knott (2009): "an elegant Early English tub font on pilasters, retaining its Perpendicular font cover."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 353784 5773817
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.095571, 0.865477
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 5′ 44.06″ N, 0° 51′ 55.72″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, Barnack stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: 15th-century?
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: yes; pulley
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
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.
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]