Fingringhoe
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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: sketch in Barrett (1893)
Copyright Instructions: PD
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01083FIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century (late?), Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew [originally dedicated to St. Ouen]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew [earlier dedicated to St. Ouen]
Church Address: Church Rd, Fingringhoe, Colchester CO5 7BN, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1206 729878
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 8 km SE of Colchester, off the B1025
Font Notes:
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The font and a tall cover is illustrated in Barrett (1893): "Just within the door stands the font of which the carved oak crocketed cover, like that rare type at Thaxted, opens for purposes of use in lieu of being raised aloft, by means of a counterpoise. The design of this canopy is very good, and the oak has been carefully cherished." Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: octagonal bowl with moulded under-edge, plain stem and moulded base, late 14th-century. Font cover: [...] of oak, octagonal and of three stages, panelled lower stage with pierced and traceried buttresses and cresting; much restored second stage; third stage with open ogee-shaped ribs with crockets and mojlded terminal, 15th-century." Cox (1923) mentions a fine wooden pinnacle font-cover. Bond (1908) gives its height as "11 feet high, in three stages". In Pevsner (1976) as one of several noteworthy font covers in this county: "Tall, octagonal, of wood, much repaired. Buttresses with pinnacles at the angles. Plain panels ending in traceried heads. Plain second stage. Top stage with openwork ogee ribs carrying a finial." Bettley & Pevsner (2007) add 15th-century date for the cover, but do not mention the font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 358446 5745873
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.8457, 0.945
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 50′ 44.52″ N, 0° 56′ 42″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 15th century / Perpendicular
Material: wood
Apparatus: Barrett (1893) describes it in terms that suggest a rim-buffet type of cover
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Barrett, C.R.B., Essex: highways, byways, and waterways (second series), London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1893, p. 118
- Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 362
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 289
- Cox, John Charles J., English Church Fittings Furniture and Accessories, London: B.T. Batsford, 1922, p. 19
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 3: xxxii, 101 and pl. opp. p. 181
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 33, 182