Stock / Stock Harvard
Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.co.uk]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of church exterior - west portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font and cover at the west end, left (south) side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.co.uk]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stock Parish Church, 2006
Image Source: digital image in [www.stock.org.uk/churches/allsaints/history.html]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION (requested) NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06733STO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1430?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (early)?, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: On the S side of the nave, just W of the south door
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17536460
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Stock is located on the B1007, in the outskirts of Billericay, 8-9 km SSW of Chelmsford
Additional Comments: permision to repro parish pic req'd (email of 1 June 2006) -- no reply 21 Sept. 2010
Font Notes:
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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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of this church
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, p. 753
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 4: 155