East Mersea

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Results: 9 records

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - crocketed - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B02: design element - motifs - tracery

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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

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BU01: angel - cherub - 8?

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: on the lower base

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

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R01: design element - motifs - floral - square flower

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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

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UB01: design element - motifs - panel - cinquefoiled - crocketed

Scene Description: on the stem of the base [cf. Font notes]

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

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

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

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font and cover

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

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

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 11643MER

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Edmund King and Martyr

Church Patron Saints: St. Edmund the Martyr [aka Edmund of East Anglia]

Country Name: England

Location: Essex, East

Directions to Site: Located on the NE corner of Mersea Island, 12-13 km SSE of Colchester

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font noted with an illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "octagonal bowl, each face with a trefoil and crocketed head with tracery above and vaulting or tracery below, shallow pedestals at base of panels, top edge carved with square flowers, lower edge with half-angels, stem with cinquefoiled and crocketed panels, moulded base, 15th-century." In Pevsner (1976) and in Bettley & Pevsner (2007): "Font. Octagonal, C15, with uncommonly pretty blank arches." There is considerable damage to the upper rim. Flat wooden cover, plain and round, with ring handle; modern. The RCHM (ibid.) notes two possible stoups -chancel and nave- perhaps of the same period [no separate entry made in tthis Index]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

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