Laindon nr. Basildon
Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 20
Scene Description: arches or panels
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
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view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
INFORMATION
FontID: 06093LAI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours & St. Nicholas
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located near and to the W of Basildon, 5 km S of Billericay, N W of London
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Late Norman? / Transitional?
Cognate Fonts: many other such in Essex and all over England
Font Notes:
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Noted with an illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: [...] square bowl, each face with five shallow pointed panels, early 13th-century, stem modern." Listed 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". Noted in Pevsner (1976) and in Bettley & Pevsner (2007): "Font. Of the Purbeck type, with shallow blank pointed arcades on each side; C13."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
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