Belchamp St. Paul
Results: 6 records
B02: symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - pointed or cusped quatrefoil
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1100719022_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B03: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - pointed or cusped quatrefoil
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the basin appearing too sharp to be original; is it re-cut? a 19th-century replacement? the whole base is modern
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2010
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, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font at the west end, south side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11618BEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century [basin only - re-cut?] / 19th century [composite font], Late Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew, Belchamp St. Paul
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, S side
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17536054
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: Church St, Belchamp St Paul, Sudbury CO10 7DJ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1787 269385
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 8 km W of Sudbury, 37 NNE from Chelmsford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Additional Comments: re-cut? [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Noted in the Royal Commission of Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font; octagonal bowl, two sides plain, the rest with sunk panels, two panels enclosing saltires, and four panels cusped and enclosing plain shields, etc. 15th-century." In Pevsner (1976) and in Bettley & Pevsner (2007): "Font. Octagonal, with sunk panels decorated by saltire crosses, shields, etc." [NB: the font looks suspiciously sharp; is it a re-cut, or a 19th-century replacement? - the base is certainly modern, as is the octagonal wooden cover]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, of three graded layers; knob handle; modern
REFERENCES
- Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 129
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 1: 17
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 82