Orsett
Results: 8 records
B01: design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 4
![alternating with shields on the sides of the basin [cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1060705010_compressed.png)
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)
Copyright Instructions: PD
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)
Copyright Instructions: PD
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)
Copyright Instructions: PD
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)
Copyright Instructions: PD
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)
Copyright Instructions: PD
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)
Copyright Instructions: PD
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06723ORS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1500?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Giles & All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Giles_%26_All_Saints_Church,_Orsett
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles] and All Saints
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
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 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): "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, p. 618
- 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, 104-105 and pl. between pp. xlii-xliii
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 310