West Lee

INFORMATION

FontID: 06595LEE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church?
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: [the church has disappeared as well]
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Font Notes:
Cox & Harvey (1907: 161) report that "when the visitors of the peculiar jurisdiction of St. Paul's cathedral made a tour of their Essex churches in 1297, they inquired as to the material of the font; in a single case, namely, that of West Lee, they found that the font was one of wood." The book Lost Parishes of Essex, by Andrew Barham, reports a lost church at West Lee [full citation not available].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: wood

REFERENCES

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