Bowers Gifford / Bura
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 April 2017 by N Chadwick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5462763] [accessed 16 May 2019]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © terry joyce, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 December 2010 by terry joyce [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2199535] [accessed 16 May 2019]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11621BOW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1500?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Margaret of Antioch
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Address: London Rd, Bowers Gifford, Benfleet SS13 2EZ, UK -- Tel.: (01268)558430
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A13, W of the A130, E of Basildon, 12 km WNW of Southend-on-Sea
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Barstable
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the mid-14thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There are four entries for Bowers [Gifford] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ7587/bowers-gifford/] [accessed 16 May 2019] neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The entry for this church in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923) reports: "Font: octagonal bowl with moulded under-edge, plain stem and hollow-chamfered base, early 16th-century; font cover: old finial with facets and lozenge-ornament painted gold, red and white, 16th or 17th-century." Only the cover is noted in Pevsner (1976): "Font cover. Polygonal pyramid; C17"; Bettley & Pevsner (2007) date the font early-16th century. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TQ7559287252] notes: "Church. Mid C14, bell stage added early C16, main restoration 1910. [...] Plain octagonal font, moulded under the bowl. C17 timber pyramid font cover.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 328884 5714637
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.556828, 0.531563
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 33′ 24.58″ N, 0° 31′ 53.63″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 16th-17th century?
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 160
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 4: 13
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 96