Clavering / Clauelinga
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Results: 5 records
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 16
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 exterior - southeast 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 - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary & St Clement, Clavering - East end"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 30 June 2015 by John Salmon [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4553416] [accessed 28 July 2022]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary & St Clement, Clavering - West end" -- the font is partially discernible at the west end of the south aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 30 June 2015 by John Salmon [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4553421] [accessed 28 July 2022]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary & St Clement, Clavering - Font"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 30 June 2015 by John Salmon [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4553456] [accessed 28 July 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11636CLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Clement
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Clement
Church Location: Church End, Clavering, Saffron Walden CB11 4PQ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1799 550703
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located off the B1038, 9-10 km SW of Saffron Walden, 32 km S of Cambridge, at the county border with Herts
Historical Region: Hundred of Clavering [Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, S aisle, W end
Century and Period: 13th century (early?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for Clavering [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TL4731/clavering/] [accessed 28 July 2022], none of which mentions priest or church in it. Noted with an illustration in the Royal Commission of Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923) as "an undistinguished example of the 13th century [..] of Purbeck marble, octagonal bowl with two shallow pointed panels in each side, central stem surrounded by eight circular shafts, early 13th-century, restored, stem and base modern." In Pevsner (1976): "Font. Octagonal, of Purbeck marble, with two shallow blank pointed arches to each side; c.1200." Bettley & Pevsner (2007) add: "the stem and base C19". The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TL4707531812] notes: "flint rubble church of the late C14 and early C15 [...] C13 octagonal font of Purbeck marble". Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble, Polygonal I Type (Octagonal): "the central stem is restored; base modern" [source given: RCHM (NW), 1916].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.96527, 0.1397
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 57′ 54.97″ N, 0° 8′ 22.92″ E
UTM: 31U 303507 5761040
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, plain and flat; 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
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