Margaretting
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - west end - north side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
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)
Copyright Instructions: PD
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06703MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1525?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Margaret of Antioch
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the south aisle, opposite the S entrance
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17545221
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B1002, about 6 km SSW of Chelmsford
Font Notes:
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Noted in Coller (1861) as "a fine font" inside the church at Margaretting. Described as "a magnificent work of the same date [ca. 1525], octangular in form and panelled and highly moulded in the plinth as well as in the shaft and top", in Piggot's Essex 1832-3 Trade Directory [in www.essexpubs.net/Directories/Ingatestone2.htm]. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period [NB: C&H appear to indicate that it was engraved by Paley, but Paley's 1844 work does not contain an entry for this font]. Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: octagonal--sides of bowl and base moulded, panelled and carved; on the bowl various designs, including a Tudor rose, square and compasses and acorns, a crown, a mitre, etc.; panelled stem; late 15th-century." In Pevsner (1976): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with quatrefoils carrying flowers, a crown, a mitre, a head with tongue put out." Bettley & Pevsner (2007) add: "Nice ogee-domed cover". The Eseltech site [www.eseltech.co.uk/margarettingchurch/html/history.html] notes the symbols in the panels: "Mitre; square and compasses; acorns; a face with a protruding tongue; leaves; a rose leaf and crown".
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of church and font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 15th-16th century? / 19th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: low-dome Ogee-shaped wooden cover with knob finial; appears too sharp to be original; restored? Victorian?
REFERENCES
- Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 246
- Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 591
- 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: 185 and plan on p. 184
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 296