London No. 23

Results: 47 records

design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

information

Sir Julius Caesar (1557 or 1558 - 1636), son of Giulio Cesare Adelmare (an Italian physician to Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, descended by the female line from the dukes of Cesarini) and his wife Margery Perient,

Scene Description: Sir Julius Caesar (1557 or 1558 - 1636), son of Giulio Cesare Adelmare (an Italian physician to Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, descended by the female line from the dukes of Cesarini) and his wife Margery Perient,

Image Source: 1810 engraving after contemporary portrait, reproduced in http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SirJuliusCaesar.jpg [accessed 15 July 2013]

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: the modern hexagonal sunken font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: the modern hexagonal sunken font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: the modern hexagonal sunken font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of basin - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - tomb

Scene Description: outside the west end of the church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of church exterior - west end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of church exterior - west end - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of church exterior - west portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2005 by Evan A. Sparks [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_helens_bishopsgate.JPG] [accessed 12 July 2013]

Copyright Instructions: This work has been released into the public domain by its author, Evanasparks at the English Wikipedia project. This applies worldwide.

view of church interior

Scene Description: with the font and cover seen from the south entrance

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - monument

Scene Description: of John and Lady Spencer

Image Source: engraving in Cox (1876) [digital image by BSI]

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of church interior - monument

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - monument

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - monument

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - monument

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - monument

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - monument

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - monument

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - monument

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - monument

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - monument - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - monument - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: engraving in Cox (1876) [digital image by BSI]

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking northeast

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view of church interior - nave - looking northeast - detail

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view of church interior - nave - looking southeast

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view of church interior - north aisle - looking east

Scene Description: also known as 'Nun's choir'

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - plan

Image Source: engraving in Cox (1876) [digital image by BSI]

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view of church interior - tomb

Scene Description: the tomb of Sir Julius Caesar in Cox' engraving of 1876

Image Source: engraving in Cox (1876) [digital image by BSI]

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view of church interior - tomb

Scene Description: the tomb of Sir Julius Caesar; much damaged in the 1992/1993 IRA bombings; reconstructed

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - tomb - detail

Scene Description: the tomb of Sir Julius Caesar; much damaged in the 1992/1993 IRA bombings; reconstructed

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - tomb - detail

Scene Description: the tomb of Sir Julius Caesar; much damaged in the 1992/1993 IRA bombings; reconstructed

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - tomb - detail

Scene Description: the tomb of Sir Julius Caesar; much damaged in the 1992/1993 IRA bombings; reconstructed

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - tomb - detail

Scene Description: the tomb of Sir Julius Caesar; much damaged in the 1992/1993 IRA bombings; reconstructed

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - tomb - detail

Scene Description: the tomb of Sir Julius Caesar; much damaged in the 1992/1993 IRA bombings; reconstructed

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - tomb - detail

Scene Description: the tomb of Sir Julius Caesar; much damaged in the 1992/1993 IRA bombings; reconstructed

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - west gallery

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of font and cover - north side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the font and partial view of the west gallery

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of font cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: the 20th-century sunken font and its cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: the 20th-century sunken font and its cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: the 20th-century sunken font and its cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 09889LON

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Church of St. Helen, Bishopgate, with St. Martin Outwich [aka Great St. Helen's]

Church Patron Saints: St. Helena, with St. Martin

Church Location: Great St Helen's, London EC3A 6AT, United Kingdom -- Phone:+44 20 7283 2231

Country Name: England

Location: Greater London, South East

Directions to Site: In the City, between Bishopsgate and Leadenhall St.

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of London

Historical Region: Bishopsgate

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end of the nave

Century and Period: 17th century(mid?), Restoration

Church Notes: first recorded mention of this church from ca. 1161 -- church affected by 1992 and 1993 IRA bombings, with much damage to Sir Julius Caesar's monument, but font was not affected

Font Notes: Click to view

A rather unremarkable baptismal font of the mid-17th century. Baltch (1995), writing during the extensive reconstruction and repairs to the damage in the church, mentions that "a central font, permitting total immersion if required, has already been sunk into the floor", but no mention is made of the other font. This sunken font is actually 20th-century.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.5148, -0.0818

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 30′ 53.28″ N, 0° 4′ 54.48″ W

UTM: 30U 702475 5711113

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 4-6 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 46 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 54-56 cm

Basin Total Height: 24 cm

Height of Base: 62 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 86 cm

Font Height (with Plinth): 108 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal wooden cover; gilded

REFERENCES

Blatch, Mervyn, Guide to London's churches (2. ed.), London: Constable, 1995

Cox, John Edmund, The Annals of St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, London, London: Tinsley Brothers, 1876