Piscina - St Michael - South Elmham St Michael, Suffolk
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A piscina in the south wall of the chancel of St Michael's church, South Elmham St Michael
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Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 12/04/2019
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A piscina in the south wall of the chancel of St Michael's church, South Elmham St Michael. It has with a continuous moulding round its pointed arch.
"In the south wall of the Chancel, next to the Priest’s door, is a large blocked-up window, completely out-of-scale with the rest of the church. East of it is a small piscina which would have been used for rinsing the communion vessels.
The altar Reredos portrays local saints, St. Felix and St. Fursey kneeling either side of the church’s patron saint, St. Michael the Archangel. St. Felix became the first bishop of Dunwich in about A.D. 630. Fursey was an Irishman who migrated to East Anglia about A.D. 633 and settled at Burgh Castle, near Yarmouth."
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