West Hanningfield

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design element - motifs

Scene Description: only the lower part of the shortened basin remains

Image Source: digital photograph 28 May 2014 by John Salmon [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4051863] [accessed 13 February 2023]

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design element - motifs - floral - ball-flower

Scene Description: several, alternating with heads

Image Source: digital photograph 28 May 2014 by John Salmon [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4051863] [accessed 13 February 2023]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: on the remains of the medieval lower base

Image Source: digital photograph 28 May 2014 by John Salmon [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4051863] [accessed 13 February 2023]

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design element - motifs - scotia

Image Source: digital photograph 28 May 2014 by John Salmon [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4051863] [accessed 13 February 2023]

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design element - patterns - trellis - round motif inside

Scene Description: all around the stem

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human figure - head

Scene Description: several, alternating with ball-flowers

Image Source: digital photograph 28 May 2014 by John Salmon [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4051863] [accessed 13 February 2023]

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view of basin

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"

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"

Image Source: digital photograph 28 May 2014 by John Salmon [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4051851] [accessed 13 February 2023]

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view of church interior - plan

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary & St Edward, West Hanningfield - Font"

Image Source: digital photograph 28 May 2014 by John Salmon [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4051863] [accessed 13 February 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09975HAN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Edward

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Edward the Confessor

Church Location: Church Rd, West Hanningfield, Chelmsford CM2 8UJ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1245 400532

Country Name: England

Location: Essex, East

Directions to Site: Located off the A12/A130, 6 km S of Chelmsford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 14th century / 12th -13th century [lower base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.6704, 0.507737

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 40′ 13.44″ N, 0° 30′ 27.85″ E

UTM: 31U 327664 5727321

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

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923

Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975

Paul, W. Norman, Essex Fonts and Font Covers: Norman to Nineteenth Century, Baldock, Herts.: Egon Publishers, 1986

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"]