Althorne
Results: 13 records
B01: sacrament - baptism - baptism of a king
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: detail of an illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
B02: human figure - male and female
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
B03: human figure - male and female - king and queen
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: detail of an illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
B04: angel - Seraphim
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: detail of an illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
B07: human figure - male - 2
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: detail of an illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
BU01: angel - 8
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: detail of an illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
LB01: design element - patterns - tracery
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Scene Description: on the sides of the stem [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: detail of an illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
LB02: design element - motifs - floral - rose - in a quatrefoil - 8
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Scene Description: on the lower half of the stem [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: detail of an illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
LB03: design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 16
Scene Description: on the lower base sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: detail of an illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of font - northeast side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of font - southwest side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06721ALT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1400?
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, S side, by the S entranceway
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17531906
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B1010, 5 km NW of Burnham, 10 km SE of Colchester
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Noted with an illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "octagonal bowl with sunk panels carved with figures--(a) baptism of a king, (b) man and woman, (c) king and queen, (d) seraph, (e) two men with scrolls, (f) martyrdom of St. Andrew, (g) two figures of men, moulded under-edge carved with angels, panelled stem, with two ranges of cusped panels divided by an embattled band, moulded base carved with square flowers, c. 1400." In Pevsner (1976): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with fleurons on the foot, panel travery on the stem, and on the bowl figures of angels, saints, a baptism, the martyrdom of St. Andrew, etc. The figure carving is thoroughly bad." In Bettley & Pevsner (2007).
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
REFERENCES
- Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 89
- 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. 4: xliii, 2 and pls. between pp. xxxii-xxxiii
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 57