East Mersea
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Results: 9 records
B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - crocketed - 8
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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B02: design element - motifs - tracery
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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BU01: angel - cherub - 8?
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: on the lower base
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R01: design element - motifs - floral - square flower
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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UB01: design element - motifs - panel - cinquefoiled - crocketed
Scene Description: on the stem of the base [cf. Font notes]
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11643MER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Edmund King and Martyr, East Mersea
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17536691
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Edmund the Martyr [aka Edmund of East Anglia]
Church Address: Church Ln, East Mersea, Colchester CO5 8TJ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1206 383222
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the NE corner of Mersea Island, 12-13 km SSE of Colchester city centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chalmsford
Font Notes:
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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]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photograph of this font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
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, p. 338
- 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, 94 and pl. opp. p. xxxiv
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 170