Norton Mandeville
Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
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B01: design element - architectural - column - columns with capitals and bases - 4
Scene Description: at the corners of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: at the west end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11611NOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Norton Lane, Norton Mandeville, Essex, CM5 9NU, UK
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A414, 4 km NE of Chipping Ongar
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Ongar
Font Notes:
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Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: of Barnack stone, square bowl with four attached shafts with moulded capitals and bases, staple in top, late 12th-century, stem modern." In the Victoria County History (Essex, vol. 4, 1956): "The walls are of flint rubble dating mostly from the first half of the 14th century, but mixed with this are blocks of freestone from a 12th-century church. [...] The bowl, set on a later base, is of Barnack stone, square, with angle shafts, and is of the 12th century." Noted in Pevsner (1976): "Font. Square, with attached angle columns, of Barnack stone, late C12." Noted in much the same terms in Bettley & Pevsner (2007).
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 312496 5733162
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Barnack stone)
Font Shape: square
Basin Interior Shape: rectangular
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: square, flat and plain
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 617
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 2: 200
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 33, 309