Great Stambridge / Stambridge Magna
Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
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B01: design element - motifs - floral - flower - 4-petal - in a quatrefoil
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B02: coat of arms - fleur-de-lis - in a quatrefoil
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
B03: design element - motifs - floral - rose - 4-petal - in a quatrefoil
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
B04: coat of arms - unidentified - in a quatrefoil
Scene Description: "with the letter W surmounted by a crown" [cf. Font notes]
B05: design element - motifs - floral - flower - 8-petal - in a quatrefoil
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
B06: coat of arms - unidentified - in a quatrefoil
Scene Description: "with four bars" [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
B07: coat of arms - unidentified - in a quatrefoil
Scene Description: "three pierced molets and a border" [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: illustration 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: illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
INFORMATION
FontID: 11656STA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary and All Saints
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located 2-3 km NE of Rochford, about 6 km NNE of Southend-on-Sea
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Font Notes:
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There is a drawing of this font done in 1851 by E. King in the Essex Record Office [ref. I/Mp 325/[http://seax.essexcc.gov.uk/] [accessed 20 September 2010]
Noted with an illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: [...] octagonal bowl with concave sides, one blank, the others each with a quatrefoiled circle enclosing (a) a four-leafed flower, (b) shield with fleur-de-lis, (c) a four-leafed rose, (d) shield with the letter W mounted by a crown, (e)eight-leafed flower, (f) shield with four bars, (g) shield with three pierced molets and a border; moulded under-edge and hollow-chamfered base, late 15th-century." In Pevsner (1976) and in Bettley & Pevsner (2007): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular] with concave sides and quatrefoiled panels with shields, etc."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
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