Dagenham / Dæccanhaam
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 April 2007 by MRSC [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dagenham_church.jpg] [accessed 12 April 2012]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11641DAG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Date: ca. 1200?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Address: Church Lane, Dagenham, London, RM10 9UL, UK
Site Location: Greater London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Dagenham is now a suburb of London, 20 km E of Charing Cross
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: formerly in Essex
Additional Comments: destroyed font / disappeared font: [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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The Victoria County History (Essex, vol. 5, 1966) notes: "The earliest known reference to the church of Dagenham was in 1205 [...] Architectural evidence suggests that the church of St. Peter and St. Paul was built early in the 13th century. By c. 1254 it had been appropriated to Barking Abbey [...] The west gallery and font date from the rebuilding of 1801–5." Noted in Pevsner (1976): "Font. bowl on baluster stem." Linda Rhodes, of the Local Studies Centre, Valence House Museum, Dagenham [www.barking-dagenham.gov.uk/4-heritage/dag-village] informs in her 'Old Dagenham Village: Parish Church of St. Peter and St.Paul: a Brief History' that "on the 2nd Sunday in Advent 1800 [...] the tower fell with a tremendous crash onto the nave. The roof, the porch, gallery, font and pews were destroyed". [NB: we have no information on the ca. 1205 font]
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 301823 5713716
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 153