Fryerning
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Results: 11 records
B01: design element - motifs - foliage
![or a vine; N side of the basin [cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1100714014_compressed.png)
Scene Description: or a vine; N side of the basin [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B02: symbol - sun
![on the S side of the basin [cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1060522049_compressed.png)
Scene Description: on the S side of the basin [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
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]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
B04: symbol - star
Scene Description: on the S side of the basin [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
B05: symbol - tree
![Tree of Jesse?; on the E side of the basin [cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1100714012_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Tree of Jesse?; on the E side of the basin [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2010
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]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Beechwood Photography, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 May 2010 by Beechwood Photography [http://www.flickr.com/photos/beechwoodphotography/4608480021/] [accessed 30 June 2010]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0.
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and program
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Essex County Council, 2010
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
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOR FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06091FRY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1200?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: Other fonts of this type in the same county (Abbess Roding, Little Laver, Moreton)
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Fryerning, Ingatestone CM4 0NL, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1277 352562
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
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 Notes:
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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
UTM: 31U 318024 5728263
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.67582, 0.368
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 40′ 32.95″ N, 0° 22′ 4.8″ E
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-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 373
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 199
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 2: xxxv, 139 and pl. opp. p. xxxii
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 186
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 27, 83