Great Sampford

Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
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Results: 5 records
BU01: design element - motifs - moulding
LB01: design element - patterns - tracery
LB02: design element - architectural - window - trefoiled
view of church exterior - southeast view
INFORMATION
FontID: 11655SAM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located 11 km WSW of Saffron Walden
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century [basin only] -- 14th century base only] [composite font], Late Medieval
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Noted with an illustration in the Royal Commission of Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923) as a "good 14th-century font [...] with moulded octagonal bowl probably 15th-century, stem with ogee-headed panels, alternately trefoiled and traceried, square chamfered base with moulded angles, 14th-century". In Pevsner (1976): "Font. Elaborately traceried stem, plain bowl; C14." Oddly, not mentioned in Bettley & Pevsner (2007).
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
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