Ingatestone
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06720ING
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century / 19th century, Medieval? / Victorian?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Edmund and St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Edmund the Martyr [aka Edmund of East Anglia] & St. Mary
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located about 10 km from Chelmsford (dir. Brentwood)
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. Noted in Pevsner (1976): "Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal with quatrefoil panels bordered by friezes of small quatrefoil panels." Bettley & Pevsner (2007), however: "Font by Chancellor, 1866-7" [i.e., Frederic Chancellor, who restored the church in the mid-19th century]. The Parish web site [www.ingatestoneparishchurch.org.uk] reports a font cover of the Jacobean period in this church. [NB: unable to resolve the gap in dates -- are there two fonts? -- to be resolved]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: Jacobean
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 502
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 199
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 250