Stock / Stock Harvard

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.co.uk]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of church exterior - west portal

Image Source: illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font and cover at the west end, left (south) side

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.co.uk]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital image in [www.stock.org.uk/churches/allsaints/history.html]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06733STO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Country Name: England

Location: Essex, East

Directions to Site: Stock is located on the B1007, in the outskirts of Billericay, 8-9 km SSW of Chelmsford

Font Location in Church: On the S side of the nave, just W of the south door

Date: ca. 1430?

Century and Period: 15th century (early)?, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of this church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The font at Stock is listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as being of the Early English period. Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: octagonal bowl with moulded lower edge, plain stem and base, probably 15th-century. Font cover: flat, of oak, with middle post having acorn terminal and four shaped supports, probably early 18th-century." Noted in Bettley & Pevsner (2007): "Font. Octagonal bowl, plain stem and base, C15." An octagonal mounted font is illustrated in the parish of Stock Harvard's web page [www.stock.org.uk/churches/allsaints/history.html] and described as dating from ca. 1430.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 18th century?

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

Notes: Noted in the RCHM [cf. FontNotes] -- The font has "two marks where the original lock existed" [source: www.stock.org.uk]

REFERENCES

Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923