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]

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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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UB01: design element - patterns - tracery

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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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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view of church interior - nave - looking northwest

Scene Description: the font and cover at the back, by the north door

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06727WIL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew and All Saints
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew & All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located just S of Willingale Doe, about 6 km NE of Chipping Ongar, 12-13 km W of Chelmsford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are gratefult to John Whitworh, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of church and font
Church Notes: This church shares its yard with the church at Willingale Doe
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].

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