Broomfield No. 1 / Broomfield nr. Chelmsford
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches
Scene Description: seen here on the left side of the basin
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2009 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1494952] [accessed 3 April 2018]
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design element - architectural - arcade - pointed arches - intersecting arches
Scene Description: seen here on the right panel of the basin
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design element - architectural - column - 5
Scene Description: the central shaft and the lower base or plinth are a later replacement; the supporting colonnets at the angles mey be later than the basin [cf. FontNotes]
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design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases - 4
Scene Description: one at each angle of the basin
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2009 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1494952] [accessed 3 April 2018]
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design element - motifs - foliage - waterleaf
Scene Description: on the capitals of the angle colonnettes of the basin [cf. Font notes]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of church interior - plan
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: B&W engraving in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2009 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1494952] [accessed 3 April 2018]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06089BRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary with St. Leonard
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Leonard [earlier dedicated to St. Leonard]
Church Location: Church Green, Broomfield CM1 7BD, UK -- Tel.: +44 1245 440318
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located off the B1008, 4-5 km N of Chelmsford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Chelmsford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Transitional / Early English
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: round-tower church
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Broomfield [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL7010/broomfield/] [accessed 3 April 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Tyrrell-Green (1928) lists a good specimen from a group of fonts "characteristic of the Norman period in architecture", "consisting of a rectangular bowl upon a large central shaft, with four slender supporting shafts at the angles". Noted n Pevsner (1976): "Font. Square, of Purbeck marble, C13 with three shallow blank pointed arches on each side and (an exception) angle shafts." In the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: square, slightly tapering bowl, each face having three shallow panels with pointed heads; at each angle an attached shaft with rounded base and capital carved with water-leaf; bowl stands on a modern pier and has at each angle a round shaft with scalloped capital and moulded base, of old material re-cut; probably of Barnack stone; late 12th -century." [NB: on one of the sides of the basin the arcade has intersecting arches].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.767506, 0.468503
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 46′ 3.02″ N, 0° 28′ 6.61″ E
UTM: 31U 325326 5738212
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble or Barnack stone)
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: square and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle
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