Vange nr. Basildon / Fange / Phenge
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 May 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1890158] [accessed 3 Aptil 2020]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 December 2005 by John Whitworh [www.essexchurches.info]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 December 2005 by John Whitworh [www.essexchurches.info]
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view of font and cover - east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 December 2005 by John Whitworh [www.essexchurches.info]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 December 2005 by John Whitworh [www.essexchurches.info]
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view of font -- east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
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design element - motifs - zigzag
Scene Description: on the east side of the basin [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 December 2005 by John Whitworh [www.essexchurches.info]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © terry joyce, 2012
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 19 January 2012 by terry joyce [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2771193] [accessed 3 April 2020]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 May 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1890148] [accessed 3 Aptil 2020]
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view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 December 2005 by John Whitworh [www.essexchurches.info]
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view of church interior - looking west
![viewed through the chancel arch, with the font the far [west] end](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1200403001_compressed.png)
Scene Description: viewed through the chancel arch, with the font the far [west] end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 May 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1890181] [accessed 3 Aptil 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - west end
Scene Description: the font and cover beneth the western gallery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 December 2005 by John Whitworh [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11617VAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [restored], Medieval [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints [redundant]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Notes: original church 12thC
Church Address: 4PX, London Rd, Vange, Basildon, UK
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (NE) the A13-A176-B1464 crossroads, just S of Basildon, 13 km NE of Grays Thurrock
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Barstable
Additional Comments: restored font: outer colonnettes and plinth are modern replacements
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Vange [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ7287/vange/] [accessed 2 April 2020], but neither cleric nor church is mentioned in it. A font here is noted with an illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: [...] plain square bowl with rough zig-zag lines on E. face, and carved foliage in spandrels of top surface, cylindrical stem and defaced base for four angle shafts, 12th-century, shafts modern." In Pevsner (1976): "Font. Square bowl on five supports. One side of the bowl with a zigzag motif. C12-13." Bettley & Pevsner (2007) note that the base is from 1881. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TQ7150386723] notes: "A small ragstone and flint church of Norman origin, with nave and chancel. The south wall of the nave has the remains of a Norman window. [...] The font is C12, with a square bowl supported on 5 columns, one side has chevron ornamentation." [NB: the broad central support and the moulded lower appear to be original, but the outer colonnettes and the plinth are 19th-century replacements.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of church and font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 324767 5714385
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.5533, 0.47236
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 33′ 11.88″ N, 0° 28′ 20.5″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood and metal
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat, round anf plain wooden platform, with metal ribbed top and Latin cross; appears modern
REFERENCES
- Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 123
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 4: xliii, 163 and pl. between pp. xlii-xlii
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 75