Feering
INFORMATION
Font ID: 08785FEE
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: By the N door
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17535925
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just off (W) the A12, about 20 km NW of Chelmsford [51° 51′ 3.6″ N, 0° 43′ 4.8″ E 51.851, 0.718] [Diocese of Chelmsford]
Font Notes:
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Wilson's Gazetteer of 1870-1872 reports an antique font in this church. Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a fine 15th-century holy-water stoup located by the north door. [NB: we have not been able to corroborate either in more up-to-date sources]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 237
- Wilson, John Marius, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales: embracing recent changes in counties, dioceses, parishes, and boroughs [...], Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., 1870-1872