North Fambridge nr. Southend-on-Sea / Fanbruge
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Results: 5 records
B01:
coat of arms - unidentified - 4
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B02:
design element - motifs - floral - rose - 4
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of font
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Image Source: Tyrrell-Green (1928: fig. 14)
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: notice the broken stumps at the angles of the lower base; this is presumably the lower base of an earlier font
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INFORMATION
FontID: 05867FAM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located on the north side of the Bridgemarsh, about 12 km N of Southend-on-Sea
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century [12th-century lower base (?) [composite font], Late Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: Prittlewell?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of church and font
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: octagonal bowl, faces carved with roses or shields, 15th-century; square base with socket for four angle-shafts, probably late 12th-century." Described and illustrated in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as an octagonal mounted font ornamented with shields bearing coats-of-arms on alternate sides of the basin, the other sides -or, at least, one of them, have other motifs, one being a four-petalled flower; the sides of the basin are concave, as is the chamfer of the underbowl. The stem of the base is octagonal with straight sides below the moulding that separates it from the underbowl; square plinth. Stocker (1997: 24) lists it as as a possible early font bowl set within base of successor.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with flar cross and round knob finial; modern
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
Paul, W. Norman, Essex Fonts and Font Covers: Norman to Nineteenth Century, Baldock, Herts.: Egon Publishers, 1986
Stocker, D.A., "Fons et origo: The Symbolic Death and Resurrection of English Font Stones", I (1997b), Church Archaeology, 1997, pp. 17-25; r["References"]
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928
