Blackmore / Fingreth / Phingaria

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Results: 8 records

view of church exterior - north view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2007454] [accessed 4 April 2012]

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view of church exterior - portal

Scene Description: "This is a view from inside the timber tower and shows the original Norman entrance to the priory with the nave beyond. This would have been on the exterior as the tower was added after the priory was dissolved in 1527. The arch is 12th century, dating back to when the priory was founded for Augustinian Canons." [source: Robert Edwards [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/941426] [accessed 4 April 2012]]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robert Edwards, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2008 by Robert Edwards [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/941426] [accessed 4 April 2012]

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view of church exterior - west tower

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Kemp, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2011 by David Kemp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2442394] [accessed 4 April 2012]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2011 by Simon Knott [www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/6295521807/] [accessed 26 March 2012]

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view of church interior - plan

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923

Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)

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view of church interior - tower - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923

Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)

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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2011

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 October 2011 by Simon Knott [www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/6295524637/] [accessed 26 March 2012]

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view of font in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2011 by Simon Knott [www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/6295524637/] [accessed 26 March 2012]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 04794BLA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church [former Priory] of St. Lawrence
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: Church Street, Blackmore, Ingatestone, Essex, CM4 0RN
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located near Writtle, W of Chelmsford, 5 km E of Chipping Ongar, 7 km N of Brentwood
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a plain octagonal baptismal font made of Purbeck marble. Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: Octagonal bowl, stem and plinth, both plinth and under edge of bowl hollow-chamfered, 14th or 15th-century." Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one in a very large group of baptismal fonts that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins. Described in Hutton (1957) as "a plain octagonal Purbeck font, said to be Norman but probably 14C D[ecorated]." [NB: the church fabric goes back to the Norman period, but we have no information on the earlier font]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.690465, 0.317009
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 41′ 25.67″ N, 0° 19′ 1.23″ E
UTM: 31U 315218 5729877

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble (Purbeck)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923
Hutton, Graham, English Parish Churches, London: Thames & Hudson, 1976
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928