Great Sampford
Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
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Results: 5 records
BU01: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: [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)
Copyright Instructions: PD
LB01: design element - patterns - tracery
Scene Description: on alternate panels [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)
Copyright Instructions: PD
LB02: design element - architectural - window - trefoiled
Scene Description: on alternated panels [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)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of church interior - plan
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11655SAM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century [basin only] -- 14th century base only] [composite font], Late Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael, Great Sampford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17540031
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Address: Great Sampford, Saffron Walden CB10 2RG, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1799 586354
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located of the B1051, 11 km WSW of Saffron Walden
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chalmsford
Font Notes:
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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, vol. 1: xxx, 136 and pl. opp. p. xxix
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 208