Nazeing
Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2010
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Results: 4 records
B01:
symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - 8?
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the font at the west end of the nave, south side, just west of the doorway
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font
Scene Description: the composite font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 09947NAZ
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Betts Lane, Nazeing, Essex, EN9 2DB
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located off the B181, just SW of Harlow
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Waltham
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, S side
Century and Period: 15th century [basin only -- base is earlier, perhaps 12th century?] [composite font], Late Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of church and font
Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: octagonal bowl with quatrefoiled panels enclsing blank shields, 15th-century, circular stem, probably earlier." The Victoria County History (Essex, vol. 5, 1966) writes: "The church of Nazeing was among the possessions of the canons of Waltham confirmed by Henry II in 1177. [...] The nave was built in the 12th century [...] In 1874 the church was restored. [...] The font has a 15th-century octagonal bowl and a 17th-century cover. The ciircular stem is probably older than the bowl." In Pevsner (1976) and in Bettley & Pevsner (2007): "Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal, with quatrefoils carrying shields. Font cover. Plain ogee-shaped with a finial; C17." Stocker (1997) mentions this font as integrating parts of earlier font(s?) The Church of St. Giles, Lower Nazeing, is modern.
COORDINATES
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century?
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2006-04-12 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976
Stocker, D.A., "Fons et origo: The Symbolic Death and Resurrection of English Font Stones", I (1997b), Church Archaeology, 1997, pp. 17-25; r["References"]
