Willingale Doe / Willingale Dow
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Results: 5 records
B01: symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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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 west
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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 east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06726WIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Christopher
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17530910
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Christopher
Church Notes: This church shares its yard with the church at Willingale Spain
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 12-13 km W of Chelmsford; near Willingale Spain, with a font of the same period
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."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of church and font
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. 838
- 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. 2: 261
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 426