Tillingham
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B01:
design element - motifs - foliage
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Essex Record Office, 2010
Image Source: anonymous and undated B&W photograph in the Essex Record Office [http://seax.essexcc.gov.uk/result_details.asp?DocID=314513] [accessed 23 September 2010] [Mint Binder Tilliangahm ref. I/Mb 364/1/2]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 05924TIL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located on the B1021, 12 km NNE of Burnham-on-Crouch, N of Southminster [Coordinates: 51° 41′ 52.8″ N, 0° 52′ 58.8″ E 51.698, 0.883]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Norman
Cognate Fonts: Belaugh and Southacre
An anonymous and undated B&W photograph of this font is held at the Essex Record Office [Mint Binder Tilliangahm ref. I/Mb 364/1/2]. Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: square bowl with coventional foliage in relief, late 12th-century." Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a square baptismal font mounted on a central support, with four corner shafts at the angles. In Pevsner (1976) and in Bettley & Pevsner (2007): "Font. Late Norman, with plain square bowl on quatrefoil foot with attached angle shafts. Carved foliage."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: square and flat, with grooved adges; date unknown
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
