Boreham

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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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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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view of font

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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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the altered font in 2009

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06702BOR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located on the B1137, about 5 km NE of Chelmsford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century [altered], Decorated [altered]
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
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
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