Willingale Spain nr. Chipping Ongar
Image copyright © John Whitworh, 2008
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Results: 8 records
B01: human figure - head - in a quatrefoil
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworh, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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B02: design element - motifs - floral - rose - 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 - patterns - tracery
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworh, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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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 northwest
Scene Description: the font and cover at the back, by the north door
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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
Scene Description: the top corner of the font is visible in the foreground, left (north) side
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06727WIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew and All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7592377
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew & All Saints
Church Notes: This church shares its yard with the church at Willingale Doe
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just S of Willingale Doe, about 6 km NE of Chipping Ongar, 12-13 km W of Chelmsford
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 a quatrefoil in a circle and enclosing alternately a rose and a face, moulded under side, stem with trefoil-headed panels, late 14th-century." Noted in Pevsner (1976): "Font. Octagonal, C14, with traceried stem and quatrefoils carrying roses and heads." In Bettley & Pevsner (2007): "Font. Octagonal, C14, with traceried stem and quatrefoils carrying roses and heads. Bettley & Pevsner (2007). add: Oak cover by Geldart" [i.e., Ernest Geldart].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are gratefult to John Whitworh, 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: 262
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 426