Eastwood nr. Southend-on-Sea

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]

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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]

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view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]

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view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)

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view of church interior - plan

Image Source: illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)

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view of font

Image Source: illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)

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view of font

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view of font in context

Image Source: 1894 print based on a drawing by A.B. Bamford (Marlborough, Pentless & Co. 52 Old Bailey, London, EC.), in the Mint Binder Eastwood fond, Essex Record Office [ref. I/Mb 130/1/2] [http://seax.essexcc.gov.uk/result_details.asp?DocID=304487] [accessed 22 June 2010]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06708EAS

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Lawrence & All Saints

Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence] & All Saints

Country Name: England

Location: Essex, East

Directions to Site: Located 3 km NW of Southend-on-Sea

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S aisle, W end

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Benton (1867-1888) reports a circular font standing on a step; dates it late-Norman. This font was illustrated in a 1894 print based on a drawing by A.B. Bamford, the print now in the Essex Record Office [ref. no. I/Mb 130/1/2]. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Noted with an illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: [...] round tapering bowl with round interfacing arcade with simply foliated spandrels and resting on tall pilasters with crudely moulded capitals and bases, plain stem and moulded base, late 12th-century." In Pevsner (1976): "Font. Norman, circular, with intersected arches." Described as "best example in Essex of late Norman or Early English (12th century" [web site: home.clara.net/macpherson/history1.htm]. The shape of the basin at the upper rim is not perfectly round but rather squarish with rounded corners; this shape applies also to the inner well. The RCHM (ibid.) inventories also a holy-water stoup "rough recess, partly broken away and covered with plaster", in the south porch [no separate entry in this Index].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round [cf. FontNotes]

Basin Exterior Shape: round [cf. FontNotes]

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

REFERENCES

Benton, Philip, The History of Rochford Hundred, [together with...], Rochford: A. Harrington, 1867-1888

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