Chrishall / Cristehalla

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B01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: tiny mouldings on the chamfered corners of the basin [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 September 2006 by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]

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UB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: on the outer colonnettes of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 September 2006 by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]

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view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 September 2006 by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]

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view of church interior - south aisle - looking east

Scene Description: the font and cover in the foreground, the west side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 September 2006 by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]

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view of font

Scene Description: the two metal staples visible on the left side of the basin

Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the font showing the two metal staples on its side

Image Source: digital photograph in A Church Near You [http://www.achurchnearyou.com/chrishall-holy-trinity/] [accessed 17 June 2010]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11635CHR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity

Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity

Country Name: England

Location: Essex, East

Directions to Site: Located 10 km W of Saffron Walden, 20 km S of Cambridge, at the county border with Hertfordshire [Coordinates: 52° 1′ 55.2″ N, 0° 6′ 32.4″ E 52.032, 0.109] [Diocese of Chelmsford] [NB: Chrishall is in Essex, but has a Herts postal code]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle

Date: ca. 1300?

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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.

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

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

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976