Chrishall / Cristehalla
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B01: design element - motifs - moulding
![tiny mouldings on the chamfered corners of the basin [cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1100723003_compressed.png)
Scene Description: tiny mouldings on the chamfered corners of the basin [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 September 2006 by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
UB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: on the outer colonnettes of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 September 2006 by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font
Scene Description: the two metal staples visible on the left side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 September 2006 by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - south aisle - looking east
Scene Description: the font and cover in the foreground, the west side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 September 2006 by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the font showing the two metal staples on its side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Archbishop's Council, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph in A Church Near You [http://www.achurchnearyou.com/chrishall-holy-trinity/] [accessed 17 June 2010]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11635CHR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1300?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity, Chrishall
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17539076
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity
Church Address: Church Rd, Chrishall, Royston SG8 8QU, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1763 837272
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 10 km W of Saffron Walden, 20 km S of Cambridge, at the county border with Hertfordshire [NB: Chrishall is in Essex, but has a Herts postal code]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Additional Comments: altered font? Some parts of the base appear to be a modern reconstruction -- damaged basin: reinforcing staples
Font Notes:
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Noted with an illustration in the Royal Commission of Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923) as "an undistinguished example of the 13th century [...]; square bowl with chamfered angles, resting on round central stem and two circular and two octagonal corner columns with rough capitals and moulded bases, late 13th or early 14th-century." In Pevsner (1976) and Bettley & Pevsner (2007): "Font. Plain, of c.1300." The basin is not plain; the vertical angles have been chamfered and there are tiny decorative mouldings on the chamfer; also, the spandrels formed at the corners of the square basin top have been chamfered at an angle; these attempts at decoration may of course be a later change to what may have originally been a totally plain basin, which, in turn, might push the date of the font back somewhat. Two old metal staples were used to repair a large vertical crack. Parts of the base appear to be a modern reconstruction.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of church and font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with four vertical ribs arranged in a cross shape; modern
REFERENCES
- Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 235
- 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, 65-66 and pl. opp. p. xxix
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 126