Great Saling No. 1

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Results: 5 records

B01: design element - patterns - tracery

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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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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: part of the basin and cover of the font visible on the south (right) side

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11654SAL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James the Great
Church Patron Saints: St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located 6 km WNW of Braintree
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century (early?) [basin only] [composite font], Late Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of church and font.
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.

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
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