Willingale Doe / Willingale Dow
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B01: symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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UB01: design element - motifs - panel - trefoiled
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06726WIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Christopher
Church Patron Saints: St. Christopher
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located 12-13 km W of Chelmsford; near Willingale Spain, with a font of the same period
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of church and font
Church Notes: This church shares its yard with the church at Willingale Spain
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font:octagonal, each face with quatrefoil in circle and enclosing blank shield, moulded under edge, stem with trefoile-headed panels, 15th-century." Noted in Pevsner (1976): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with traceried stem and quatrefoils carrying shields." In Bettley & Pevsner (2007): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with traceried stem and quatrefoils carrying 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