Bulmer nr. Subury
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2006 by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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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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angel - holding shield - blank shield - 4
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symbol - shield - coat of arms - unidentified
Scene Description: "a bend impaling a border engrailed"
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design element - motifs - floral and foliage
Scene Description: a flower in the centre, in a frame of foliage; the flower resembles a rose
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2006 by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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design element - patterns - crenellated
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human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose - head
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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design element - motifs - floral - 8
Scene Description: some are square flowers
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font at the west end, beneath the tower
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design element - motifs - panel - traceried
Scene Description: on the sides of the stem [cf. Font notes]
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design element - motifs - moulding
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11629BUL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, centre aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: Church Road, Bulmer, Essex, CO10 7TB, UK
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near the county border with Suffolk, about 6 km SW of Sudbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Hinckford
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Bulmer [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL8440/bulmer/] [accessed 5 October 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports: "an ancient font of considerable beauty" here. Noted with an illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923) as one of the best 15th-century fonts in the county: "octagonal, bowl with embattled rim and moulded and carved lower edge, four sides with angels holding plain shields, one side cusped with a shield --a bend impaling a border engrailed, other sides with foliage, a face, etc., panelled stem and moulded base, 15th-century." In Pevsner (1976): "Font. Octagonal, C15; bowl with foliage and angels holding plain shields." Bettley & Pevsner (2007) report a 'Green Man' on the basin side.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 341272 5766773
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.028839, 0.686251
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 1′ 43.82″ N, 0° 41′ 10.51″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 186
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 1: xxx, 46 and pl. opp. p. xxix
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=50842] [accessed 22 January 2007]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 106