Ingatestone

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B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 06720ING
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Edmund and St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Edmund the Martyr [aka Edmund of East Anglia] & St. Mary
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located about 10 km from Chelmsford (dir. Brentwood)
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century / 19th century, Medieval? / Victorian?
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
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976