Bulphan / Bulgeuen

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Scene Description: the Victorian font [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital image in the Bulphan Parish web site [www.hobnob.org.uk/inchurch.htm]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: this must be the 19th-century font -- view of the nave looking west: the new font partly visible at the west end, centre of the nave

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

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06718BUL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Church Rd, Bulphan RM14 3TP, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1375 891254

Country Name: England

Location: Essex, East

Directions to Site: Located just S of the A127, 9 km SSE of Brentwood, W of Basildon

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford

Historical Region: Hundred of Barstable [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: In the churchyard [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Decorated

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Rev. E.W. Hanson, of Orsett, Essex, for his help in documenting this font]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Bulphan [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ6385/bulphan/] [accessed 16 March 2024]; it mentions neither priest nor church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) note a baptismal font of the Decorated period here. Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Essex (1916-1923): "Font: In churchyard, by lych-gate, circular stem with moulded edge." [cf. Index entry for Langdon Hills, Essex, for information on a font originally from Bulphan]. [NB: the Bulphan Parish web site [www.hobnob.org.uk/inchurch.htm] shows the baptistry at St. Mary's with an octagonal mounted font in it but does give the details of the font]. [NB: the RCHM report [supra] is consistent with a communication that Rev. Littlehales had removed the old font to a site in the churchyard near the lychgate prior to 27 November 1874; an entry in the Register of Baptims in Bulphan for the latter date notes" "Re-opening of the Church. New font first used. W.G.L." -- sometime after that the old font was moved to Langdon Hills -- cf. Index entry].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.5478, 0.36

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 32′ 52.08″ N, 0° 21′ 36″ E

UTM: 31U 316957 5714049

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

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