Great Bentley / Benetleiam

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B01: symbol - shield - blank - 3

Scene Description: scratched crosses are probably a later addition [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital image in St Mary's Church, Great Bentley [https://stmaryschurchgreatbentley.co.uk/baptism/] [accessed 27 February 2023]

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches

Scene Description: arches or panels on the sides of the stem [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital image in St Mary's Church, Great Bentley [https://stmaryschurchgreatbentley.co.uk/baptism/] [accessed 27 February 2023]

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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8

Scene Description: in pairs, on alternate sides of the basin [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital image in St Mary's Church, Great Bentley [https://stmaryschurchgreatbentley.co.uk/baptism/] [accessed 27 February 2023]

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design element - motifs - floral

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital image in St Mary's Church, Great Bentley [https://stmaryschurchgreatbentley.co.uk/baptism/] [accessed 27 February 2023]

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: digital image in St Mary's Church, Great Bentley [https://stmaryschurchgreatbentley.co.uk/baptism/] [accessed 27 February 2023]

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view of church exterior - north view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St Mary. Unusually for a church in the Tendring Hundred, this church is in the centre of Great Bentley village, close to its vast village green. It is a Grade I Listed Building"

Image Source: digital photograph 15 February 2006 by Rger W Haworth [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/126484] [accessed 27 February 2023]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital image in St Mary's Church, Great Bentley [https://stmaryschurchgreatbentley.co.uk/baptism/] [accessed 27 February 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11648BEN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: 3 Thorrington Rd, Great Bentley, Colchester CO7 8QE, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Essex, East

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A133, 12 km ESE of Colchester

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford

Historical Region: Hundred of Tendring [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NE corner of the nave, by the left (N) side of the chancel arch

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Church Notes: church ca. 1130-1140; much modified since

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for [Great] Bentley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM1021/great-bentley/] [accessed 27 February 2023], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923) entry notes: "Font: octagonal bowl with double-trefoiled panels and shields alternately, three shields with traces of crosses, moulded under-edge with carved flowers, stem with plain pointed panels, 15th-century." The RCHM (ibid) notes also scratchings on the font and other areas dated to the 17th century, as well as a recess for a former stoup in the nave, on the W of the S doorway. In Pevsner (1976): "Font. Octagonal, with trefoils and shields; simple". Bettley & Pevsner (2007) add the C15 date. The British Listed Buildings database [http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-120202-church-of-st-mary-great-bentley] [accessed 5 July 2010] notes: "C15 octagonal font, alternate panels of double trefoils and shields, moulded soffit with carved flowers, stem with 2 centred arches, moulded base"; the church itself is noted as going back to ca. 1130-1140. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle atop; modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.853549, 1.061196

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 51′ 12.77″ N, 1° 3′ 40.31″ E

UTM: 31U 366472 5746527

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead libed

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

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