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B01: design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 4

Scene Description: alternating with shields on the sides of the basin [cf. Font notes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923

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

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B02: symbol - shield - cross - 2

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923

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

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B03: coat of arms - Archbishop Courtenay?

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B04: coat of arms - Archbishopric of Canterbury?

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

LB01: design element - architectural - buttress

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923

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

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view of church interior - plan

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923

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

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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923

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

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view of font and cover in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923

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

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06723ORS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Giles & All Saints
Church Patron Saints: St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles] and All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located on the B188, just N of the A13, 5 km NE of Grays, 6 km N of Tilbury [Coordinates: 51° 30′ 36″ N, 0° 22′ 12″ E 51.51, 0.37]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1500?
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
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): "Font: [...] bowl with alternate faces carved with rosettes and shields, one charged with an archbishop pall and cross, probably for the archbishopric of Canterbury, one with one roundedl and a label possibly for Archbisop Courtenay, the others each with a cross; the buttresses, stem and hollow-chamfered base, c. 1500." In Pevsner (1976) and in Bettley & Pevsner (2007): "Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal, with buttressed stem and panels with rosettes and shields."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

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
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976