Great Burstead

INFORMATION

FontID: 05967BUR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary Magdalene
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located near Billericay, NW of Basildon, just N of the A127, about 13 km S of Chelmsford [Diocese of Chelmsford]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century,
Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: octagonal font with moulded under-side, plain stem and moulded base, 15th-century." Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one in a very large group of baptismal fonts that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins. The font is of design that has rather shallow basin sides but with a long concave underbowl that continues in an unbroken line all the way to the base. The RCHM [ibid.) inventories a holy-water stoup of the 15th century in the N porch [no separate entry in this Index]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928