Fryerning

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B01: design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: or a vine; N side of the basin [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B02: symbol - sun

Scene Description: on the S side of the basin [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)

Copyright Instructions: PD

B03: symbol - moon - crescent

Scene Description: on the S side of the basin [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)

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B04: symbol - star

Scene Description: on the S side of the basin [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)

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B05: symbol - tree

Scene Description: Tree of Jesse?; on the E side of the basin [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B06: symbol - cross - fleuronnée - 2

Scene Description: on the W side of the basin [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)

Copyright Instructions: PD

N.A: view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 May 2010 by Beechwood Photography [http://www.flickr.com/photos/beechwoodphotography/4608480021/] [accessed 30 June 2010]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font

Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)

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view of font and program

Image Source: "Print: Font, Fryerning church, Essex. H.W. K[ing]" [ref. I/Mb 151/1/5] in SEAX Essex Archives Online, Essex Record Office

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06091FRY

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Fryerning, Ingatestone CM4 0NL, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1277 352562

Country Name: England

Location: Essex, East

Directions to Site: Located just W of the A12, 7-8 km WSW of Chelmsford [Fryerning and Ingatestone form a single civil parish since 1889, but maintain two different churches]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: ca. 1200?

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Norman

Cognate Fonts: Other fonts of this type in the same county (Abbess Roding, Little Laver, Moreton)

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923) as one of "a curious group of four square bowls (Abbess Roding, Fryerning, Little Laver [...] and Moreton), somewhat rudely carved with various designs including the sun, moon, stars, whorl (for a comet?), etc." On the font at Fryerning in particular the RCHM notes: "square bowl with panelled sides carved with conventional foliage, two stars, whorl, crescent, four small quatrefoils, and two foliated crosses with foliage; lower edge moulded and rounded at angles to take small circular shafts, circular stem, c. 1200, base and side-shafts modern." Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as 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"; T-G (ibid.) adds that the font is ornamented with floral or foliage motif, "and on the same font the sun and moon are represented, as well as the more usual stars". In the VCH (1956). In Pevsner (1976): "Font. With big square bowl decorated with large scrolls, leaves, etc.; c.1200." Ditto in Bettley & Pevsner (2007). [NB: an undated print by H.W. K[ing] in the Essex Record Office shows the square basin mounted on a plain square pedestal base with a splaying lower end].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.67582, 0.368

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 40′ 32.95″ N, 0° 22′ 4.8″ E

UTM: 31U 318024 5728263

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, Caen stone

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: square and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2006-05-09 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

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