Elmdon nr. Buntingdord
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Lloyd, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 November 2005 by Peter Lloyd [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/85106] [accessed 3 December 2014]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06709ELM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century [base only] [composite font], Decorated ? [base only]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in one of the arches of the arcade that separates the nave from the S aisle, opposite the doorway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Address: Ickleton Road, Elmdon, Essex CB11 4LT
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just W of the M11, 3 km N -and accessible from- the B1039 (dir. Buntingford)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Uttlesford [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: altered font: modern basin on a 14thC base -- photograph of the font in the context of the interior in www.essexchurches.info [22 June 2010] -- not useable
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Elmdon in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TL4639/elmdon/] [accessed 3 December 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font here is listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period, but noted in the Royal Commission of Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923) as "modern, except octagonal stop-chamfered base, c. 1400." The present font is indeed a composite object, with a plain octagonal basin raised on an octagonal-to-square base, and is located in one of the western arches of the arcade that separates the nave from the south aisle, near the south door. It is unlikely that the modern basin was a re-cut from an earlier font [error in Cox & Harvey?].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 584073 5810923
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.442031, -1.763102
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 26′ 31.31″ N, 1° 45′ 47.17″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 199
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 1: 80-82 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=122429] [accessed 3 December 2014]