Chingford No. 1 / Cingeford / Cingheford

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 20 arches

Scene Description: five per side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph in Bob Speel's Church Monuments - London / Former Sussex [http://www.speel.me.uk/essex/chingfordstpeterandpaul.htm] [accessed 12 February 2023]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "All Saints Church, Chingford, London" -- the old parish church, now chapel of ease

Image Source: digital photograph 24 April 2017 by Irid Escent [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:All_Saints_Chingford_20170424_140857_(33760756658).jpg] [accessed 12 February 2023]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "The south face of the Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Chingford} -- the new church

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 10 September 2022 by Doyle of London [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:South_Face_of_the_Church_of_Saint_Peter_and_Saint_Paul,_Chingford_(01).jpg] [accessed 12 February 2023]

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view of font

Scene Description: notice the upper rim area, obviously a restoration using new stone

Image Source: digital photograph in Bob Speel's Church Monuments - London / Former Sussex [http://www.speel.me.uk/essex/chingfordstpeterandpaul.htm] [accessed 12 February 2023]

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view of font

Scene Description: the old font in the new church

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph by Isabel Tomlins, in he CRSBI [

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "The 20th-century baptismal font in the Church of All Saints, Chingford, situated in the south aisle. The medieval font once in this church has since been moved to the Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul elsewhere in Chingford."

Image Source: digital photograph 10 September 2022 by Doyle of London [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baptismal_Font_in_the_Church_of_All_Saints,_Chingford_(01).jpg] [accessed 12 February 2023]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the old font in the new church

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11633CHI

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul [the new church]

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul [originally All Saints]

Church Location: Carbis Cl, London E4 7EW, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Greater London, South East

Directions to Site: Located off the A110 [aka Kings Head Hl], on the E bank of the river Lea, and now a NNE suburb of London

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford

Historical Region: Hundred of Waltham [in Domesday] / formerly Essex

Font Location in Church: Inside the new church

Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman

Church Notes: old church documented 1181; advowson between 1207 and 1308 held by the Knights Templar; new church built 1710; old church became chapel of ease ca.1930

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for Chingford [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ3894/chingford/] [accessed 11 February 2023]; neiher of them mentions cleric or church in it. The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923) notes: "Font: In modern church--square bowl, of Purbeck marble, each face with five shallow panels, circular stem with four angle-shafts, and chamfered base, late 12th-century, top modern." In Pevsner (1976): "Font. Purbeck marble, square, C12, with five shallow blank arches to each side of the bowl." Originally from the old church that was abandoned in the 19th century, the font was moved to the newly built church in Chingford Green in 1844 [source: www.chingfordparish.co.uk/history.htm]. Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble: "bowl with five panels on each face" [source given: RCHM (C&SW), 1921]. The ntry for the old church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TQ3737293382] notes: "Parish church. Nave of C12 origins; south aisle late C13; west tower and chancel C15; south porch C16. Restored in 1929". The entry for the new church, where the font now stands, in Historic England [Listing NGR: TQ3860494383] notes: "Church. 1844 [...] Interior understood to contain C12 font of Purbeck marble". The font shows clear signs of having undergone a restoration, the whole upper rim area obviously a new stone replacement. Round, flat and plain wooden cover.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.631192, 0.001201

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 37′ 52.29″ N, 0° 0′ 4.33″ E

UTM: 31U 292465 5724279

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: round, flat and plain; modern

REFERENCES

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

Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976