Sandon nr. Chelmsford
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Andrew, Sandon, Essex"
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Image Source: digital photograph 17 August 2009 by John Salmon [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1496277] [accessed 24 February 2024]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Sandon - St Andrew's Church. The church interior." -- showing the font and cover partially on the left
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Malcolm Reid, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph 24 April 2007 by Malcolm Reid [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/411615] [accessed 24 February 2024]
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view of church interior - piscina
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Andrew, Sandon, Essex - Piscina"
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Image Source: digital photograph 17 August 2009 by John Salmon [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1496302] [accessed 24 February 2024]
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view of font and cover - south side
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Andrew, Sandon, Essex - Font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 17 August 2009 by John Salmon [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1496300] [accessed 24 February 2024]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 05968SAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Hall Ln, Sandon CM2 7RQ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1245 698988
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A12, S of the A414, 5 km SE of Chelmsford town centre
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, opposite the S entranceway
Century and Period: 16th century(early?), Perpendicular
Font Notes:
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No entry found for this Sandon in the Domesday survey. The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923) notes: "Font: octagonal with moulded lower-edge to bowl, probably early 16th-century." Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one in a very large group of baptismal fonts that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins. The entry for this church in Historic England [List Entry Number: 1235849] notes: "The nave and chancel are C12 [...] C12 pillar piscina with a spiral shaft, chevron base and interlace capital, found built into the NW buttress in 1904 [...] Polygonal font with plain bowl and moulded lower edge, C15 or C16, with a late C17 or c18 cover." [NB: the fabric of this church goes back to Norman times, but we have no information on its earlier font]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.71506, 0.5222
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 42′ 54.22″ N, 0° 31′ 19.92″ E
UTM: 31U 328832 5732253
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-18th century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
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