Brightlingsea

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design element - motifs - floral

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design element - motifs - floral - rose - in a quatrefoil - 8

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design element - motifs - panel - cinquefoiled - 8

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view of church exterior

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2064184] [accessed 9 February 2013]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11628BRI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Church Road, Brightlingsea, Essex, CO7 0RZ
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located off the B1029, 12-13 km SE of Colchester, just across the bay from East Mersea
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular
Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: octagonal bowl, each face with a quatrefoil enclosing a rose, moulded underside with carved flowers, stem with sunk panels with cinquefoil heads, traces of colour and gilding, lat 15th-century." In Pevsner (1976) and Bettley & Pevsner (2007): "Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal, with traceried stem and, on the bowl, quatrefoils with roses." The Brightlingsea Town site [www.brightlingsea-town.co.uk] reports "traces of the original paintwork" on the font.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.82822, 1.01348
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 49′ 41.59″ N, 1° 0′ 48.53″ E
UTM: 31U 363109 5743799

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: pyramidal octagonal with decorated arrisses

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