South Hill nr. Biggleswade / Southill / Southyevell / Sudgible / Sudgivele

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Scene Description: the 1937 font [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: the 1937 font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Southill church in 1792 [X405/23]

Image Source: original source unknown [reproduced in [whttp://www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/ArchivesAndRecordOffice/CommunityArchives/Southill/ChurchArchitecture.aspx]] [accessed 11 March 2013]

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 September 2004 by Dave Kelly [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3236008] [accessed 11 March 2013]

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view of font

Scene Description: the 1937 font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the 1937 font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 18374HIL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: 27 School Lane, Southill, Central Bedfordshire SG18 9LL

Country Name: England

Location: Bedfordshire, East

Directions to Site: Located 6 km SW Biggleswade

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Date: ca. 1300?

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of the modern font here

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The advowson of Southill Church was part of the original endowment of Newnham Priory [...] by Simon de Beauchamp, as is confirmed in the second charter of Henry I [i.e., 1100-1135] [...] A repair, almost amounting to a rebuilding, in 1814 has taken away most of the interest of the church. [...] In the west bay is a three-light north window with geometrical tracery of very good style, covered with cement, but apparently old; it must date from c. 1300. [...] The font, which is modern and stands in the centre of the nave between the north and south doors, is octagonal with panelled sides." That font must have been replaced with the present one, a slender object made in 1937 by Sir Albert Richardson that bears an inscription on the upper rim of the basin with name of the person to whom the font was dedicated, Joscelyne Whitbread, according to the on-line church guide [http://allsaintssouthill.btck.co.uk/Guide] [accessed 11 March 2013]. [NB: we have no information on the original font from the 13th-14th century church, or an even earlier one from the original 12th-century church mentioned in the VCH [cf. supra]].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 683103 5771504

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2013-03-11 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.