Belchamp Walter
Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
design element - motifs - scroll - beaded-tape
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2010
Image Source: digital ohotograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jeff Horne, 2006
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 28 June 2006 by Jeff Horne [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1956803] [accessed 8 July 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5
view of church interior - nave - north wall - painting
Scene Description: Source caption: "Wall paintings at St Mary's Church, Belchamp Walter"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jeff Horne, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 28 June 2006 by Jeff Horne [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1956813] [accessed 8 July 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font at the west end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2010
Image Source: digital ohotograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11610BEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the west end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Belchamp Walter, Sudbury CO10 7AT, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1787 584993
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A131, 7-8 km W of Sudbury, 35 NNE of Chelmsford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Additional Comments: damaged font: upper rim cut / modern base
Font Notes:
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Noted in the Royal Commission of Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font [...] circular tapering bowl with band of interlacing ornament, divided by small round and twisted shafts, early 12th-century, base modern." Reported in Kelly's Directory of 1933: "ancient carved stone Norman font". Noted in Pevsner (1976): "A good C12 example, circular with scrolls, etc. [...] the bowl damaged along the top. Decoration with beaded scrolls, leaves, etc." Ditto in Bettley & Pevsner (2007). The upper part of the basin must have been very damaged and was cut off, leaving the basin shorter; the base is modern.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 338830 5767370
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.0335, 0.6504
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 2′ 0.6″ N, 0° 39′ 1.44″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 130
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 1: 20 and pl. opp. p. xxix
- Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Essex, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1933
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 33, 82