Brightlingsea

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

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2064188] [accessed 9 February 2013]
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design element - motifs - panel - cinquefoiled - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2064188] [accessed 9 February 2013]
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design element - motifs - floral

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2064188] [accessed 9 February 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rwendland, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 October 2010 by Rwendland [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:All_Saints_Church_and_lychgate,_Brightlingsea.jpg] [accessed 9 February 2013]
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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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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2064175] [accessed 9 February 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

INFORMATION

Font ID: 11628BRI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Church Road, Brightlingsea, Essex, CO7 0RZ, UK
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: painted font: traces of paint and gilding reported in the RCHM, etc.
Font Notes:
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

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

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, p. 180
  • Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 3: 17
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 103