Bradfield / Bradefelda / Bradfield nr. Manningtree
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Results: 4 records
B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 16
Scene Description: two on each side of the basin [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 September 2005 by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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NéA: view of church exterior - northeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 September 2005 by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
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view of font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 September 2005 by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11625BRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Lawrence
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: Bradfield, Manningtree CO11 2US, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1206 391218
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B1352, N of the A120, in the municipality and 5 km E of Manningtree, 12 km W of Harwich, 50 km NE of Chelmsford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Tendring [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century [restored], Early English [altered]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for this Bradfield [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM1430/bradfield/] [accessed 27 February 2023], none of which mention cleric or church in it. The entry for this church in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923) notes: "octagonal tapering bowl, each face with two shallow pointed panels, stem with plain round shafts at each angle, late 12th or early 13th-century." In Pevsner (1976) and Bettley & Pevsner (2007): "Font. Octagonal, of Purbeck marble, C13, with two shallow blank pointed arches on each side of the bowl." Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble, Polygonal I Type: no details (Octagonal) [source given: Pevsner's Essex, 1954]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TM1444430785] notes: "Parish church. Probably C13 remnant Nave and Chancel, restored C19 [...] Font, C12/C13 octagonal bowl, each face with 2 pointed panels, centre stem with plain circular shafts at each angle, C20 octagonal base."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.9339, 1.118
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 56′ 2.04″ N, 1° 7′ 4.8″ E
UTM: 31U 370615 5755360
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
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
Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976