Alphamstone / Alfelmestuna

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 20 arches

Scene Description: arches or panels, five per side [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital image of a 12 August 1999 photograph by John Salmon [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3280322] [accessed 10 February 2023]

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view of basin

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

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Barnabas, Alphamstone"

Image Source: digital photograph 14 June 2012 by Keith Evans [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Barnabas_Alphamstone_(geograph_3001549).jpg] [accessed 10 February 2023]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Barnabas, Alphamstone"

Image Source: digital image of a 12 August 1999 photograph by John Salmon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Barnabas,_Alphamstone_(geograph_3280312).jpg] [accessed 10 February 2023]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Barnabas, Alphamstone - East end"

Image Source: digital image of a 12 August 1999 photograph by John Salmon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Barnabas,_Alphamstone_(geograph_3280313).jpg] [accessed 10 February 2023]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Barnabas, Alphamstone - Font"

Image Source: digital image of a 12 August 1999 photograph by John Salmon [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3280322] [accessed 10 February 2023]

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view of font cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Barnabas, Alphamstone - Font cover"

Image Source: digital image of a 12 August 1999 photograph by John Salmon [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3280321] [accessed 10 February 2023]

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view of font cover in context

Scene Description: the 17th-century font cover is visible in the context of the church interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.co.uk]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 05127ALP

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Barnabas

Church Patron Saints: St. Barnabas [aka Barnabus, Bernabé]? [RCHM has "dedication unknown"]

Church Location: Lamarsh Rd, Alphamstone, Bures CO8 5HR, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1787 269223

Country Name: England

Location: Essex, East

Directions to Site: Located 5 km WNW of Bures, about 8 km S of Sudbury, 9 km NE of Halstead

Historical Region: Hundred of Hinckford [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Norman

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for Alphamstone [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TL8735/alphamstone/] [accessed 10 February 2023]; none of them mentios cleric or church in it. Bond (1908) makes a reference to a dome cover on the font at Alphamstone, without a mention of the font itself. Noted with an illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "square, Purbeck marble bowl, each side with five shallow, round-headed panels, late 12th-century, stem modern. Font cover: of oak, domed and panelled, with turned ball-finial with shaped supports, probably late 17th-century." In Pevsner (1976): "Font. Of the familiar Purbeck type, square, with five shallow blank arches on each side, C12.-- Font cover. Handsome, if modest, C17 piece. Semi-globe with ribs crowned by a finial of openwork scrolls carrying a ball." In Bettley & Pevsner (2007). Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble, the basin "with panels on each face; the stem is modern" [source given: RCHM (NE), 1922].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.986099, 0.734089

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 59′ 9.95″ N, 0° 44′ 2.72″ E

UTM: 31U 344406 5761917

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th century?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923

Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976