Gestingthorpe

Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923

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B01: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol - 3

Scene Description: one blank [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)

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B02: symbol - shield - rose

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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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B03: symbol - shield

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LB01: design element - motifs - tracery

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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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LB02: design element - motifs - moulding

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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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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

FontID: 11646GES
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located on the B1058, 4 km NE of Castle-Hedingham, SW of Sudbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Evangelists' font / heraldic font
Reported in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 simply as "a curious font" [a standard qualifier Lewis uses for fonts with complex or busy ornamentation]. Noted with an illustration in the Royal Commission of Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923) as one of the best 15th-century fonts in the county: "octagonal bowl, three sides carved with the symbols of three evangelists, one blank, the rest cusped, and enclosing roses or blank shields; traceried stem with moulded and carved base, 15th-century." In Pevsner (1976) and in Bettley & Pevsner (2007): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with traceried stem and a bowl decorated by shields and symbols of the four Evangelists."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

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
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976