Great Horkesley / Horkaslay
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info/church.asp?p=Great Horkesley] [accessed 19 April 2012]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11614HOR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Nayland Rd, Great Horkesley, Colchester CO6 4AJ, UK -- Tel.: +44 1206 243683
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A134, 6 km NNW of Colchester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Lexden
Century and Period: 12th century, Medieval
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
No entry found for Great Horkesley in the Domesday survey. The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923) reports: "Font cover: modern, but incorporating pierced and traceried panels, crocketed canopy, heads, etc., 15th-century." In Pevsner (1976) and in Bettley & Pevsner (2007) as one of several noteworthy font covers in this county, though much repaired: "Of tall, pinnacled Gothic form (cf. Sudbury) but mostly C19." The Victoria County History (Essex, vol. 10, 2001) notes: "There was a church by the earlier 12th century [...] The church of All Saints, a dedication first recorded in 1512, [...] The nave is 12th-century, [...] The font is 19th-century. The remains of a 15th- century font cover are incorporated in the present one." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TL9714632380] mentions no font in it. [NB: we have no information on the medieval font]. [NB: the Church of St. John is modern].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.933333,
0.866667
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 56′ 0″ N,
0° 52′ 0″ E
UTM: 31U 354137 5755268
LID INFORMATION
Date: some 15th-century parts, but mostly 19th century
Material:
wood,
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-07-07 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