Bulmer nr. Subury

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Results: 12 records

angel - holding shield - blank shield - 4

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coat of arms - unidentified

Scene Description: "a bend impaling a border engrailed"

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design element - motifs - floral - 8

Scene Description: some are square flowers

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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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design element - motifs - moulding

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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 - 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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view of church exterior - southwest view

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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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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 and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11629BUL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Church Road, Bulmer, Essex, CO10 7TB
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
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 Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, centre aisle
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of church and font
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.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.028839, 0.686251
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 1′ 43.82″ N, 0° 41′ 10.51″ E
UTM: 31U 341272 5766773

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