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view of church exterior in context - southwest end

Source caption: "The only Saxon building remaining in Colchester is the tower of Holy Trinity church which dates from around the first few decades of the 11th century. The church tower is built in the Romanesque style."
Scene Description: Source caption: "The only Saxon building remaining in Colchester is the tower of Holy Trinity church which dates from around the first few decades of the 11th century. The church tower is built in the Romanesque style."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Broster, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 June 2005 by Peter Broster [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trinity_Church_Tower_(8061979412).jpg] [accessed 11 June 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

INFORMATION

Font ID: 11637COL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (early?), Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity [now unconsacrated]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church?
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity
Church Notes: the church is no longer consecrated; closed in the 1950s, a museum afterwards; closed after 1973
Church Address: Trinity Street, Colchester, Essex CO1 1JN, UK -- Tel.: +44 01206 282920
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on Trinity Street, Colchester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Colchester
Additional Comments: disappeared font? the earlier font(s) of this church since 11th century? -- damaged font / repaired font: the top of the basin is modern
Font Notes:
There are seventeen entries for Colchester [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL9925/colchester/] [accessed 8 June 2018]; a priest is mentioned as lord three times (two in 1066, one in 1086) and "0.5 church lands" is noted in one of the entries, but none of them mentions a church, though there must have some there at the time. The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923) reports: "Font: octagonal bowl, each face carved with foliage or blank shield, moulded lower edge with ribbon ornament, early 15th-century, stem and top of bowl modern." In Pevsner (1976): "Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal, with shields and nobbly foliage in the panels." [NB: the church has elements that date it to pre-Conquest times, but we have no information on the earlier font(s)]

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 355416 5750771
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.88893, 0.899
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 53′ 20.15″ N, 0° 53′ 56.4″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

  • Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 3: 35
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 136