West Hanningfield
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary & St Edward, West Hanningfield - Font"
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
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design element - motifs
Scene Description: only the lower part of the shortened basin remains
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design element - motifs - scotia
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human figure - head
Scene Description: several, alternating with ball-flowers
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design element - motifs - floral - ball-flower
Scene Description: several, alternating with heads
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view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: digital image of a detail of an illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Parish Church of St Mary and St Edward, West Hanningfield"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trevor Harris, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 6 June 2009 by Trevpr Harris [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Parish_Church_of_St_Mary_and_St_Edward,_West_Hanningfield_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1341681.jpg] [accessed 13 February 2023]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary & St Edward, West Hanningfield - South arcade"
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design element - patterns - trellis - round motif inside
Scene Description: all around the stem
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: on the remains of the medieval lower base
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view of church interior - plan
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 09975HAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century / 12th -13th century [lower base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Edward
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin & St. Edward the Confessor
Church Address: Church Rd, West Hanningfield, Chelmsford CM2 8UJ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1245 400532
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A12/A130, 6 km S of Chelmsford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Additional Comments: recycled font: cf. FontNotes / disappeared font: only the lower base of the original font remains / recycled font / composite font
Font Notes:
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No entry found for West Hanningfield in the Domesday syrvey. Noted with an illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: [...] octagonal bowl, probably cut down and having sunk ornament on faces, moulded lower edge with carved ball-flowers and heads, moulded necking, stem with trellis ornament and roundels, probably all 14th-century; base of larger font, let into ground, with setting and mouldings for a central and four angle shafts, Purbeck marble c. 1200." In Pevsner (1976) and in Bettley & Pevsner (2007): "Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal, small." In Paul (1986). Stocker (1997) lists it as an early font bowl set within base of successor. [NB: it is quite likely that, since part of the nave is dated in the RCHM (ibid.) to the 12th century, the lower base on which the later font is raised was the original late-Norman or Transitional font -- the mouldings on the lower base are for a five-support system that would probably have supported a typical square basin of that period]. Noted in Leach (1975) as the base of a font made of Purbeck marble [source given: RCHM, (SE), 1923].
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 327664 5727321
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.6704, 0.507737
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 40′ 13.44″ N, 0° 30′ 27.85″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble) [lower base]
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 821
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 4: 166 and pl. between pp. xlii-xliii
- Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975, p. 71
- Paul, W. Norman, Essex Fonts and Font Covers: Norman to Nineteenth Century, Baldock, Herts.: Egon Publishers, 1986, p. 210
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 418
- Stocker, D.A., "Fons et origo: The Symbolic Death and Resurrection of English Font Stones", I (1997b), Church Archaeology, 1997, pp. 17-25; p. 24