Belchamp St. Paul
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Results: 6 records
B01: symbol - cross - saltire - in a quatrefoil - pointed or cusped quatrefoil
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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B02: symbol - shield - blank - 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
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 church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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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]
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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
INFORMATION
FontID: 11618BEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located 8 km W of Sudbury, 37 NNE from Chelmsford [Coordinates: 52° 3′ 1.08″ N, 0° 36′ 42.48″ E 52.0503, 0.6118] [Diocese of Chelmsford]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, S side
Century and Period: 15th century [basin only - re-cut?] / 19th century [composite font], Late Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
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
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