Dovercourt
Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Standing permission
Results: 5 records
B01: design element - motifs - tracery
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1060527014_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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
UB01: design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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 font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11642DOV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century? [composite font?], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints, Dovercourt
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Wikidata: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:All_Saints%27_Church,_Dovercourt_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5369837.jpg
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Harwich CO12 4LN, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1255 502033
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A120, between the B1352 (N) and the B1414 (S), just W of Harwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chalmsford
Additional Comments: composite font?
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font noted with an illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "octagonal bowl with moulded edges and traceried panels of various designs, square stem with attached shaft at each angle, moulded base, mid 14th-century." In Pevsner (1976) and Bettley & Pevsner (2007): "Font. Octagonal, C14, with cusped panels of tracery (intersected and other), quatrefoils, etc." [NB: the font apears to me a composite object, with a mis-matched square base to the octagonal basin and octagonal plinth]. Wooden cover consisting of flat octagonal platform, with square raised shape with converging ribs; odd piece.
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: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 327
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 3: xxxii, 86 and pl. opp. p. xxxiv
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 161