Ashingdon / Assandun
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06151ASH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17532487
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 4 km NNW of Rochford, 21 SE of Chelmsford
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: octagonal bowl with concave faces and moulded under-edge, plain stem and moulded base, early 16th-century." Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as the basin of an early baptismal font "with concave sides and octagonal in plan", "plain and massive in appearance". [NB: a church here is said to have existed since the time of Canute (995? - 1035) and a church is recorded here in the 14th century, but we have no information on an earlier font here]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 4: 4
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 36