Great Saling No. 1
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Results: 5 records
B01: design element - patterns - tracery
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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B02: symbol - shield - blank - in a cusped panel
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: part of the basin and cover of the font visible on the south (right) side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11654SAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (early?) [basin only] [composite font], Late Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James the Great
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17557490
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]
Church Address: Great Saling, Braintree CM7 5DT, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1371 856080
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located N of the A120, 6 km WNW of Braintree
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chalmsford
Font Notes:
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Noted in the Royal Commission of Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: with octagonal bowl , having sunk traceried panels, early 15th-century, stem, modern." Noted in Pevsner (1976): "Font. Octagonal, with traceried panels." Bettley & Pevsner (2007) add the date "Early C15". Blank shields and tracery alternating on the sides of the basin between pronounced upper and lower mouldings; moulded underbowl chamfer; plain octagonal stem, base and plinth, perhaps modern. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern.
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: octagonal and flat, with flat metal foliated cross and ring handle; modern
REFERENCES
- Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 418
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 1: 132
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 207