Chelmsford No. 1

INFORMATION

Font ID: 11630CHE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Cathedral Church of St. Mary, Chelmsford
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelmsford_Cathedral
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: church, a cathedral since 1913
Church Address: New St, Chelmsford CM1 1TY, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1245 294492
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the city centre, at the SE corner of the angle made by Duke St. and New St., ESE of the railway station
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Additional Comments: disappeared font? / moved font?
Font Notes:
The Chelmsford Cathedral web site [www.cathedral.chelmsford.anglican.org] [accessed 22 July 2010] informs that the baptismal font was made from Westmorland slate in the early 20th century. [NB: earlier parts of the church go back tomedieval times, but it was entirely re-built in the 15th century, but we have no information on the original font of this building, earlier a parish church -- an 18th-century font originally from this church is reported in the church of St. Peter, on Primrose Hill, by Pevsner (1976) -- Bettley & Pevsner (2007) report a modern font by Robert Potter, "a shallow round bowl on tripod support by Alan Evans" as the font in use at this time]

REFERENCES

  • Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 205
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976