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Results: 10 records
B01: design element - architectural - window - quatrefoiled - in a circle (with rose in the centre) - 8
BS01: design element - motifs - floral
BU01: design element - motifs - floral - flower - 4-petal - 8
LB01: design element - architectural - window - cinquefoiled - 8
LB02: design element - architectural - window - quatrefoiled - in a circle (with rose in the centre) - 8
LB03: design element - motifs - floral - flower - 4-petal - 8
LB04: design element - architectural - window - quatrefoiled
LB05: design element - motifs - trefoil
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INFORMATION
FontID: 05880SOU
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard
Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located 5 km N of Burnham-on-Crouch, about 20 km E of Chelmsford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described and illustrated in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as an octagonal mounted font of the Perpendicular period, a type in which "the under-side of the bowl and the base are very often adorned with four-leaved flowers or roses". The panels of the basin are ornamented with encircled quatrefoil windows with a Tudor rose set in the centre, the spandrels filled with floral motifs. The panels of the pedestal base have the same quatrefoil motif surmounted by cinquefoil arches. The vertical sides of the lower base have, on each panel, the same quatrefoil motif between trefoil windows. Short octagonal plinth. Round basin well. Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: octagonal bowl with moulded edge and quatrefoiled panels enclosing flowers; stem with quatrefoiled and cinquefoiled-headed panels, quatrefoiled base, with square flowers, late 15th-century." In Pevsner (1976): Font: "Perp[endicular], octagonal, with decorated foot, stem and bowl. The ornament is chiefly the usual quatrefoils." Much the same in Bettley & Pevsner (2007).
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. Image area]
REFERENCES
Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928