Wicken Bonhunt / Wicken Bonant
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: showing the tow replacement shafts
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2015 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4555119] [accessed 26 July 2016]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2015 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4555080] [accessed 26 July 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2015 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4555083] [accessed 26 July 2016]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06713WIC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?), Late Norman? / Transitional?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Address: Wicken Bonhunt, Essex CB11 3UG
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B1038, just W of the M11, 6 km SW of Saffron Walden
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Uttlesford [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: restored font (two of the five columns of the base are modern [cf. FontNotes])
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Wicken [Bonhunt] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL4933/wicken-bonhunt/] [accessed 26 July 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Norman period here. Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: rough square bowl of limestone on five octagonal shafts, stop-chamfered to a square plan at top and bottom, probably late 12th-century, two shafts on E. side modern." In Bettley & Pevsner (2007): "Norman, plain, massive, square." [NB: there is no font listed in the RCHM for the nearby Chapel of St. Helen, at Bonhunt Farm]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 306305 5762346
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.977977, 0.179648
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 58′ 40.72″ N, 0° 10′ 46.73″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with metal ring handle
REFERENCES
- Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 831
- 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: 341