Chickney / Cicchenai
Results: 11 records
B01: design element - architectural - canopy - crocketed - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 June 2010 by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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B02: design element - architectural - buttress - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 June 2010 by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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BBL01: angel - demi-figure - 4
Scene Description: on the soffits of the canopies [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 June 2010 by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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BBU01: design element - motifs - floral
Scene Description: a row of little flowers below the upper rim moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 June 2010 by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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BS01: symbol - shield - coat of arms - Braybrook
!["six voided lozenges" [cf. Font notes] -](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1060514032_compressed.png)
Scene Description: "six voided lozenges" [cf. Font notes] -
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
BS02: symbol - shield - coat of arms - unidentified
Scene Description: "a fesse with two cheverons" [cf. Font notes]
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
LB01: design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: on the lower base
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
R01: design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 June 2010 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 16 June 2010 by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 June 2010 by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 04772CHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary%27s_Church,_Chickney
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: The church is now [April 2007] in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the B1051, NW of Bishop's Stortford and Stansted Airport [Diocese of Chelmsford]
Font Notes:
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The Ecclesiologist (issue of February 1860) reproduces "the substance of a paper by the Revd. J. H. Sperling, Rector of Wicken Bonant, read at the Autumn Meeting of the Essex Archaeological Society, held at Saffron Walden, October, 1859" in which the Rector notes the "very elegant font of this period ['Middle Point', i.e., Decorated] at Chickney". Noted with an illustration in the Royal Commission of Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923) as a richly carved font of the 15th century: "octagonal bowl, of clunch, carved with four septfoil ogee canopies, having crockets and finials; each canopy including two faces of bowl; soffits carved with half-angels; moulded and enriched cornice, and, in spandrels, raised shields, charged with arms--(a) six voided lozenges for Braybrook; (b) a fesse between two cheverons; (c) a bend with a ring in the foot; square stop-chamfered centra; stem and four subsidiary buttressed shafts at alternate angles; moulded base with carved foliage at alternate angles, probably early 15th-century." Described in Hutton (1957) as "a good early 15C font." Noted in Pevsner (1976): "Font. C14 with buttressed stem and bowl with deep crocketed ogee arches with shields in the spandrels.-- Font cover. C16, pyramidal, with embattled foot, and crockets, but certain leaf motifs which look Elizabethan." Bettley & Pevsner (2007), however, change the earlier dates to: the font, C14; the cover, 1858. [NB: the fabric of the church goes back to Anglo-Saxon times, but we have no information on the original font]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of church and font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (clunch)
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 16th-century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 224
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 1: xxx, 63 and pl. opp. p. xxix
- Hutton, Graham, English Parish Churches, London: Thames & Hudson, 1976, p. 36
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 120
- Sperling, J.H., "The churches of north-west Essex", CXXXVI [New series no. C], Feb. 1860, The Ecclesiologist, 1860, pp. 16-19; p. 17 / [http://books.google.com/books?id=7ToEAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA2-PA17&lpg=RA2-PA17&dq=wicken+church+font&source=web&ots=gDcCAtKO1K&sig=LzzPAOMH1XuovBLHUB_ukpypd-Y#PRA2-PA17,M1] [accessed 20 Dec 2007]