Boreham
Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind
Scene Description: cusped gabled arches [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: B&W engraving in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: B&W engraving in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of church interior - plan
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: B&W engraving in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
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Scene Description: the altered font in 2009
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © awmc1, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 December 2009 by awmc1 [http://www.flickr.com/photos/awmc1/4262967924/in/set-72157622975473479/] [accessed 15 June 2010]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06702BOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century [altered], Decorated [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17536432
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B1137, about 5 km NE of Chelmsford
Additional Comments: altered font: 19th-century glazed tiles added to the basin sides
Font Notes:
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Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a "graceful" baptismal font from the time of Edward I [1239-1307]. Noted with an illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "hexagonal with moulded top-edge, each side with deeply-sunk trefoil-head panel with acutely gabled label, moulded base and chamfered plinth, early 14th-century, partly restored in cement." In Pevsner (1976): "Font. Early C14, hexagonal, no distinction of stem and bowl, each side with a gabled blank cusped arch." Bettley & Pevsner (2007) add that the cusped arches of the basin sides are "filled with C19 glazed tiles".
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hexagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal
REFERENCES
- Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 154
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 198, 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, 24 and pl. opp. p. xxxii
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 94